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Politics in 1916 



Including State Officials, Senators, Representatives, 

Clerks, together with a Sketch of all the 

Governors from 1697 to the 

present date. 



Brief History of the Various Locations of the 
State Capital of the State of Louisiana. 



COMPILED BY 

DAVE H. BROWN 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY 

THE LOUISIANA CHRONICLE DEMOCRAT 



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INTRODUCTORY. 

In presenting this volume to the public it is with a view to 
recording, at this date, perfectly reliable and accurate data of 
tiie men of affairs of the day — 1916. 

This data has been carefully and painstakingly compiled from 
the most reliable sources, and has been authenticated by the 
subject personally, thus, in turning its pages for facts about 
>our friends in Louisiana political activities of 1916, you may 
be sure of perfect accuracy, a wanting element in too many such 
volumes. 

Not only is the statement of fact in the text reliable, but the 
photographic reproductions are from the camera less than thirty 
nays prior to the publication, the subjects each having made a 
special setting for use in this book. 

Within a few short years many of those now active in Louisi- 
ana State affairs will nave passed away, and year by year the 
lines will grow thinner and thinner. Thus it will be found this 
record, like that of the governors of the State from 1679 to the 
present day, and which follows in this volume, will be an im- 
perishable and reliable one for the guidance of future genera- 
tions. 

Scan this list of past governors, from Sauvolle in 1699 to 
Pleasant in 1916, and it will be easy to appreciate the value of 
the work being done in this accurate, dependable record, pictorial 
and biographical, for the generations to come. 

To Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant and his administration this 
volume is dedicated. 

—LOUISIANA CHRONICLE DEMOCRAT. 



— Page Four 



A BRIEF HISTORY 

OF 

Louisiana's State Capital 

AND ITS LOCATIONS 

Since 1699. 

With the closing of the year 191(i, the city of Baton Rouge will have held 
the domicile of Louisiana's State Capitol for a period of 51 years, out of 
the entire period of 104 years, since 1812, the date of the admission of the 
territory of Louisiana as a part of the United States. For two years, 1862- 
18(54, following the burning of the State house, while held by the Federal 
forces, there was no recognized State house site, so that this period has 
been equally divided between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, each city hav- 
ing been recognized as the capital for a period of 51 years. 

Prior to the acquisition of the great Louisiana territory, however, the 
seat of government of the territory had been domiciled at New Orleans for 
a period of 90 years, having been removed to that point from Biloxi, Miss., 
under the second administration of Bienville, in 1722, so that the Crescent 
City can boast of a total tenure as Louisiana's capital for one hundred and 
forty-one years, its history extending far beyond the sovereignty of the 
United States, and including stirring scenes in the development of the new 
country. 

Few State capitals have been the cause of equal dissention regarding 
their location. Fi-om the earliest period of Louisiana's history there has 
been differing opinions as to where the State house ought to be located. 
When the question was under discussion in the Bienville administration, 
many years before the United States government came into existence, there 
was a bitter quarrel concerning the site. All agreed that it should be re- 
moved from Biloxi to the banks of the Mississippi river, for the reason that 
this great river was certainly destined to become an important artery of 
trade and communication with northern settlements, but the advisers and 
friends of Bienville held that the seat of govevrnment should be placed fur- 
ther up the river, where the Manchac river is located and near the present 
site of Baton Rouge. It will be remembered that Manchac was then one of 
the open branches of the Mississippi, as was Bayou Plaquemine and other 
lower bayous, which have since been closed to provide against flood condi- 
tions. The Manchac was cut off as a defense measure, by order of the com- 
manding officer, when the City of New Orleans was threatened by hostile 
ships, and it was feared they might ascend this arm of the river and attack 
the city from the north. Governor Bienville's personal views were adopted, 
however, and New Orleans became the seat of govevrnment in 1722, where 
it remained without interruption until the Constitution of 1812, following 



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the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States. The matter 
of a domicile for the capitol of the new territory was again settled without 
removal from New Orleans, by a clause in the new Constitution stipulat- 
ing that it should remain as at present fixed, "until removed by law." No 
law was enacted bearing on this subject until the year 1845, and the State 
house remained at New Orleans for 33 years without interruption, but there 
was growing sentiment in favor of removal, and when the Constitution of 
1845 was submitted, it contained a provision that the General Assembly, 
shall, within one month after pursuant to election, under that Constitution, 
select a new site for a capital, not less than 60 miles above New Orleans, 
and that the sessions shall continue to be held in New Orleans until the 
end of the year 1848. 

The question of a proper site was again the occasion for fierce debate in 
which the preponderance of opinion favored erecting a building somewhere 
in the highland section of the lower Mississippi river territory. Many fa- 
vored a location as near to the city of New Orleans as was possible, and as 
Baton Rouge presented the first Tb'it of elevated land north of New Orleans, 
a compromise was effected in the selection of this point, it being stipulat- 
ed that the new building was to be placed on the first elevated land, front- 
ing the river. 

The State house at Baton Rouge was erected under the administration of 
Goverr\br Isaac Johnson, in 1847. J. H. Dakin, a noted architect of the 
time, drew the plans, which were regarded as ambitious for the time. The 
building, which, as originally constructed, was of Gothic architecture, with 
four commanding towers rising over the east and west entrances to a com- 
manding position, which made it a conspicuous landmark for miles around 
the adjacent country. Newton Richards was the builder and the building 
commissioners were Messrs. Maunsell White, Walter Brashear and Daniel 
D. Avery. 

Another Constitution was adopted in 1852, but it was made and provided 
that the seat of government shall be and remain at Baton Rouge, so that 
the question of capital removal could not be made an issue. It seemed as 
if the matter was settled for all time, but new forces were appearing In the 
political firmament of the nation, which were destined again to interrupt 
Louisiana's seat of government, and, after destroying the interior of the 
State house, send the domicile again to New Orleans for 15 years. In 1862 
a Federal force, occupying Baton Rouge, used the beautiful new State house 
as a barracks for a portion of its troops, and in some manner the interior 
caught fire and was completely destroyed, leaving the outside walls standing 
in perfect alignment. 

Two years later, general N. P. Banks, then in command at New Orleans, 
issued a proclamation ordering an election for delegates to meet in conven- 
tion to form another constitution. This proclamation was issued January 11, 
1864, and the convention framed the constitution of 1864 which; among other 
things, returned the seat of government to New Orleans because of there be- 
ing no building at Baton Rouge suitable for law-making purposes and no 
funds available for the repair of the burned capital. Then followed the days 
of "reconstruction." Valuable papers belonging to the State had been burned 
or destroyed. State records were in confusion and another convention was 
called to form the constitution of 1868 which, under the approval of Con- 
gress, was finally ratified. It provided for retaining the capitol at New Or- 
leans where it remained under the entire period of federal supervision. Sen- 
ators and representatives were again admitted to the national congress in that 
year, and Louisiana became a part of the union, with political affairs steadily 
drifting to normal local control. In 1879 democratic rule having been estab- 
lished, an election was called to form a constitution which should meet the 



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needs of the people themselves. The instrument thus created was known as 
the constitution of 1879 and it returned the seat of government to Baton 
Rouge, providing that the newly elected general assembly, immediately upon 
assembling, shall make the necessary appropriation for repairing the Stale 
House, whose walls had stood in almost perfect condition for this entire period. 

The City of Baton Rouge was authorized to issue certificates of indebtedness 
in the sum of Thirty- F"ive Thousand ($;!.'),000.()0) Dollars to cover subscrip- 
tions of that amount to aid in the work of repairing the State House. Under 
the provisions of this constitution and of Act 80 of 1880, the rebuilding of the 
Capitol at Baton Rouge was begun, during the administration of governor 
Louis A. Wiltz and occupied the years 1880 and 1881. Will A. Freret was state 
architect with supervision of the capitol plans and the board of commissioners 
was compo.sed of Messrs. George W. Munday, Samuel M. Robertson and Frank 
L. Richardson. The original plan was modilied and the capacity of the build- 
ing increased by erecting an additional story to the main structure. The seat 
of government was re-established at Baton Rouge, March 1st 1882, where it 
has since remained. 

For some years there has been intcrmittant discus.-ion of removing the State 
House to another location and during the session of lOl.S, an effort was made 
to have Alexandria named as the seat of government but the movement col- 
lapsed almost before it was brought to a vote. 

It was shown at that time that the present location is most convenient to a 
preponderance of the population of Louisiana and the decision so emphatically 
rendered during that contest will no doubt result in no fuither efforts being 
made during the present generation, at least, to take the State House from its 
present historic surroundings where it has been ostc.blishcd by the judgment 
of the people through so many years of turmoil and strife. 




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BRIEF SKETCHES 

OF THE 

Governors of Louisiana 

From 1699 to 1916 

INCLUDING 

Introductory of the Intrepid Leader of the Expedition 

That Founded New Orleans, and Who 

Set Sail in 1697 

Concluding With an Approved Biography of 

GOVERNOR RUFFIN G. PLEASANT 



FRENCH DOMINION 



D'IBERVILLE, Leader of Expedition. 

Lemoine D'Iberville, a brave naval officer, in 1697, accompanied by his 
brothers, Sauvolle and Bienville, set sail from Rochefort to renew the ex- 
plorations of La Salle on the gulf coast. He finally settled at Biloxi, March 
20, 1698. He soon left the colony in charge of Sauvolle and returned to France 
for men, money, provisions and arms. D'Iberville returned from France on 
Dec. 7, 1699, and brought to Sauvolle his appointment by the King as Gover- 
nor of Louisiana. 

After explorations up the Mississippi river, he returned to France, and was 
placed in charge of the French fleet, where he won eternal fame. D'Iberville 
died of yellow fever in San Domingo, July 9, 1706. 

SAUVOLLE — 1 699-1701. 

Louis XIV in 1699 appointed Sauvolle as Governor of Louisiana. This was 
a wise choice, because Sauvolle was a learned, gifted, brave man, and one 
skilled in handling men and Indians. However, he was frail physically, and 
after giving his life's blood for the struggling colony, he depai'ted to his 
father, July 22, 1701. 



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BIENVILLE — 1 701-1713. 

Three times Governor of Louisiana, the guardian of the youthful State, the 
founder of New Orleans, and one of the greatest men that have written their 
names indelibly on the Creole State, was Bienville. He succeeded his brother, 
SauvoUe, in 1701. His second term began in 1718, and his third in 1732. This 
was during the time of the commercial monopoly of Crozat, who, for sixteen 
years, held Louisiana in the grasp of a tyrant. Bienville received the first 
shipment of young women from France, the ancestors of the fair and courtly 
damsels which the world today cannot duplicate. During this time, also, was 
religion implanted on the soil of Louisiana by the sisters of charity and five 
priests. 

Like most other Governors of Louisiana, Bienville had many enemies, and 
a desperate attempt was made to remove him from office and appoint De Muys 
in his stead. Fortunately De Muys died in Havana, and Bienville remained 
Governor, ad interim, until the arrival of Cardillac. John Law had control of 
Louisiana in 1718, when Bienville was reinstated as Governor, and, of course, 
the colony, with such a trade system as Law established, could never progress 
very fast. Bienville laid off the metropolis of the South, New Orleans, in 
1817, and the seat of government was removed thence in 1723. He was re- 
called to France, to answer chai-ges that had been made against him, in 1724, 
but was returned as Governor of Louisiana eight years later. 

Bienville took his final departure from Louisiana in 1741, after having laid 
strong and deep the garden spot of the earth. He was a man of genius, vigi- 
lant, courageous, humane and conciliating in nature. France never had a 
greater son nor Louisiana a greater Governor. 

LAMOTHE CARDILLAC — 1713-1716. 

Cardillac was a Gascon by birth and a captain of infantry in Canada when 
he was chosen by Anthony Crozat to be his Governor of the Territory de 
Louisiane. Cardillac, being ignorant of the conditions that prevailed here, had 
Bienville retained as Lieutenant Governor in the mistaken idea that he could 
guide him aright. The new Governor possessed a long pedigree, but his purse, 
the first prerequisite in a new world, was depleted, and he was anxious to fill 
his purse. He was of a combination of courage, pride, morality, piety, vin- 
dictiveness and disputatiousness. 

In Canada Cardillac gained a great military reputation, but in Louisiana 
he gave his time to searching for mines from which he hoped, as the Span- 
iards in Mexico were doing, to become rich and return to France to dazzle 
the court and mingle with the ladies of the palace. He was nicknamed the 
Black Prince, because he boasted that one of his ancestors had once enter- 
tained the Black Prince under his roof, but the negroes thought that he was 
called that because he was of African descent. He alienated the affections of 
the Indians, and won the contempt of the colonists. 

De L'EPINAY — (Only Few Months.) 

This gentleman occupied the gubernatorial position for a few months only. 
He caused exereme dissatisfaction by wisely prohibiting the sale of intoxi- 
cating liquors to the Indians, and the colonists declared that liquor was worth 
more than everything else as a means of barter with the Indians; hence they 
made things so uncomfortable for De L'Epinay that he was removed from 
office. 

BOISBRIANT — 1724. 

Boisbriant was appointed Governor, ad interim, while Bienville was in 
France in 1724, to answer charges. The affairs of the Mississippi colony 
were in a terrible muddle, and the currency had so depreciated that it was 



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practically worthless. Population had decreasetl from 5,400 white souls in 
1721, to 1,700 souls in 1724. Consequently Louisiana lost caste in the eyes of 
France, who ordered the strictest economy in affairs of her government. 

To preserve the animals brought over here, Boisbriant promulgated a law 
which was remarkably severe, going so far as to order the death of the in- 
dividual who would kill his own stock without leave of the proper officials. 

PERIER — 1725. 

Perier became, in 1725, Boisbriant's successor. The India company, so as 
to attach his interest, presented him with a handsome salary, a large tract 
of land pronting the river, and eight negroes a year, so long as he remained 
Governor. 

Perier is the father of the levee system in Louisiana, having the first levees 
constructed in 1727. They were over a mile long and eighteen feet broad at 
its summit. The same year the Jesuit fathers and some nuns arrived from 
France and set about civilizing the colonists. To the first was granted the 
land which is now occupied by Sr. Mary's Market, St. Charles Hotel and the 
Cotton Exchange. This land was afterwards confiscated by the French gov- 
ernment, when the Jesuits were expelled. During this time came the Casket 
girls, each being dowered by the King, to become the wives of colonists. 

In 1729 broke out an Indian war, in which many French were murdered. 
All of Natchez was wiped out, with the exception of a tailor, who wa^ kept 
to refit the clothing worn by the dead Frenchmen for the Indians. 

VAUDREIL — 1742. 

The great marquis' administration in Louisiana was a brilliant epoch, long 
remembered by the people, and of immeasurable worth to the colony. His 
salary was larger than that of any preceding Governor, and he had under 
him the largest military force ever seen in Louisiana. 

During his administration Louisiana soil first received the sugar cane, 
which bids fair to become the rock on which the Democratic party in Louis- 
iana is going to split. Also during this time was the writing of the first 
literary production by Colonel Leblanc de Villeneuve, which was founded on 
the assassination of a strange Indian by a Croatan. The latter fled to New 
Orleans for safety, and his irate kinsmen followed and demanded of Vaudreil 
his body. The Croatan escaped and the father of the Croatan gave himself 
up to be tortured in his stead. 

KELEREC — 1753. 

Kelerec was a distinguished naval officer of twenty-five years' experience. 
It was during his term of office as Governor of Louisiana that the Arcadians 
were driven from their homes by the English, and many of them came to 
Louisiana. This kind-hearted Governor furnished each one with the pay of a 
soldier for twelve months, and gave each a home with the necessary imple- 
ments for its cultivation. Louisiana has always been famed for its hospitality, 
and in the present age it has lost none of its great qualities. 

The disagreements and fighting between England and France ended in 
1762 by the treaty of Paris, by which the former country gained the whole of 
the French possessions in the New World. This disaster led to an addition 
to the population of Louisiana, as the Canadians preferred to leave their 
homes rather than live under British rule. The Indians objected to this influx 
of Frenchmen, and Kelerec gave them lands west of the Mississippi river, for 
which the king of France sent him to the Bastile, and he died soon after being 
liberated. The Choctaws bestowed upon him the name of Father of the 
Choctaws. 



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D'ABBADIE — 1763. 

During D'Abbadie's administration the Jesuits were expelled from Louis- 
iana, and their property was confiscated in 1764, by order of the French king. 
An occurrence of much more importance was the cession of Louisiana by a 
secret treaty to Spain. However, D'Abbadie died before this fact became gen- 
erally known and his ocepter of authority passed quietly to Aubry. 

AUBRY — 1766. 

Louisianians will forever continue to look upon Aubry as a traitor to his 
people for his actions in connection with D'Ulloa. The Spanish king- sent 
out D'Ulloa to take formal possession of Louisiana for Spain, and this stirred 
up the excitable French blood, but Aubry counseled submission and even aided 
Ulloa. For this he is regarded as a renegade. 



SPANISH DOMINION 



DON ANTONIO DE ULLOA — 1767. 

Ulloa refused to show his credentials from the Spanish king, and the peo- 
ple of Louisiana could not believe that their fatherland had surrendered them 
to the Spaniards, so a public meeting was called of the colonists and a resolu- 
tion was passed, calling upon Ulloa to show his credentials within a month 
or leave the territory. He elected to leave, because he had not sufficient 
force to withstand the colony, and went to Madrid, where he poisoTied the 
mind of the absolute king against the colony. The mind of the king, whose 
word was law through more than half the world, could not brook this seem- 
ing rebellion, so he began to take measures to make an example to the rest 
of his possessions of Louisiana. 

DON ALESSANDRO O'REILLY — 1769. 

French dominion in Louisiana ended in 1769, after seventy years of rule, 
with the landing of O'Reilly on the 27th of July of that year. He appeared 
before New Orleans with one frigate, twenty-eight transports, 4,900 men and 
a large quantity of arms and ammunition. 

He was met at the landing by Lafreniere, Grandmaison and Narent, who 
signified to him the willingness of the colony to go under Spanish rule. He 
promised a mild paternal government, but he soon showed the Louisianians 
that Spain was master of her colonies, and would punish rebellions with the 
sternest action possible. He was met at the fort by the French troops under 
Aubry. The white flag of France was lowered and the flag of Spain raised 
Instead. 

O'Reilly was a Hibernian by birth, but, visiting Spain at the head of some 
Irish troops, he so won the admiration of the king of Spain that he over- 
whelmed him with favors. He was small in statue, thin, lame, disagreeable, 
but striking in appearance; mean, cruel, vindicitive, ambitious disposition and 
fiilled with a hatred for the French. 

The following are some of O'Reilly's most noted deeds during his guberna-i 
torial term: He arrested many citizens of Louisiana who opposed Ulloa, 
caused five to be shot and the others imprisoned in the Castle Moro ata Habana. 
The first census of Louisiana was taken by him and he found that there were 
.3,190 inhabitants. He originated the Cabildo, or Grand Council, and substi- 
tuted the laws of Spain for the laws of France to govern the colony. He 



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placed a tax on liquors, taverns, coffee houses, billiard rooms, boarding houses, 
and the slaughter houses. He returned to Spain in 1770. 

YNAZAGA — 177 0. 

The rule of Ynazaga was a blessing to the tender-hearted Creoles, after ■ 
the reign of bloodshed inaugurated by O'Reilly, and Louisiana prospered under 
his paternal care. He administered the laws for seven years, and when he 
left he was as universally loved as he had been universally respected. 

GALVEZ — 1777. 

Galvez was the youngest Governor that Louisiana has ever had. He was 
only 21 years of age when he took his seat as the chief ruler of this State, 
and his administraation was but a continuation of the kindly rule of Ynazaga. 
Realizing the commercial rules of Spain to be obsolete and that their enforce- 
ment would mean the ruin of the colony, he permitted Fench vessels to visit 
New. Orleans. This meant that silver and gold and slaves would take the 
place of the worthless paper currency circulating in the colony, and that Lou- 
isiana would take one step higher in the progress of man. 

Galvez was a friend of the American Revolution, and with the consent of 
Spain he raised an army by which he obtained possession of the southern. 
English colonies or settlements. He was a great soldier and administrator, 
and these abilities won for him a position as viceroy of Mexico, after the death 
of his father, Don Mathias de Galvez. 
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DON ESTEVAN MIRO — 1784. 

Don Miro, colonel of the Royal Army, who had already acted as Governor 
of Louisiana during Galvez's absence, was now made Governor. The popula- 
tion of Louisiana at this time amounted to 27,459 souls. Thus during the 
sixteen years of Spanish rule the population of Louisiana had more than 
doubled. This was further augmented by the arrival of Canadians. His rule 
is marked by the inauguration of many moral laws, and the observance of 
Sunday as the day on which man should rest. Miro was created a major-gen- 
eral in the Spanish army, and left Louisiana to the great regret of the people. 

BARON de CARONDELET — 1792. 

For the first time in the history of the world, perhaps, a town was lighted 
by the taxation of chimneys. Carondelet, being a resoui-ceful man, and seeing 
a. need lor lighting the streets of New Orleans, placed a tax of $1.12 1-2 on 
every chimney in the city, and used the money to establish and maintain a 
system of lights for the town. He fortified the town and organized the first 
militia. He dug a canal, which served the double purpose of draining the 
city and of making communication easier between New Orleans and the 
gulf cities. 

In 1794 Le Moniteur de la Louisiane, the first newspaper in Louisiana, was 
established. 

GAYOSO DE LEMOS — 1797. 

During the governorship of Lemos commerce continued to flourish. The 
United States sent a consul to New Orleans, and in 1798 the Duke of Orleans, 
afterwards Louis XVI, and his two brothers, visited the City of New Or- 
leans. Governor Lemos died July 18, 1798, after having, by his extravagance, 
spent the whole of his immense fortune. 



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MARQUIS DE CASACALVO Y O'FARRIL — 1799. 
The Marquis of Casacalvo was sent from Cuba to take the place left vacant 
by the death of Lemos. In the early part of 1799 he advocated the intro- 
duction of slaves, without any restriction on the number, but this request was 
refused by the Madrid Cabinet. He is said to have been a man of violent 
temper. 

DON MANUEL DE SALCEDO — 1801. 

Salcedo came to Louisiana in June of 1801, but his stay was to lie short, 
because Spain, by the secret treaty of St. Ildefonso in 1800, had ceded Louis- 
iana to Napoleon, who was at this time dreaming of a great empire in the 
Mississippi Valley, away from the strife and turmoil of Europe. But it was 
not until March 26, 1803, that Laussat, prefect colonial, landed ata New Or- 
leans, to take possession of Louisiana in the name of France. He was hailed 
with great rejoicing on the part of the inhabitants, who, in spite of their mild 
Spanish rule, had remained French at heart. 

Immediately upon hearing of this cession the people of Western United 
States, along the upper Mississippi Valley, demanded that President Thomas 
Jefferson secure the right of navigating the Mississippi River, with the right 
of deposit at New Orleans. Jefferson sent Monroe and Livingston to France, 
who, after a great deal of bickering and haggling, bought the territory of 
Louisiana from the French. Thus the tricolor floated over Louisiana for only 
twenty days. 

Within ninety-six years Louisiana had changed hands six times, but she 
was to change hands no more, for the rising young giant of the West had 
married her for keeps. 



AMERICAN DOMINION 



WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE, 
Governor of the Territory of Orleans — 180 4. 

Claiborne, a Virginian by birth, was the first Governor of Louisiana, under 
the American purchase. In early youth he moved to New York, where he met 
a friend, whose influence obtained for him the position of enrolling clerk in 
the House of Representatives in the United States Congress in 1791. He 
studied law in Richmond, Va., and then removed to Tennessee, where he be- 
gan the practice of his chosen profession. Claiborne was a member of the 
convention which framed the first Constitution of Tennessee. He was elected 
judge of the Supreme Court of Law and Equity, but this he resigned to be- 
come Representative in Congress in 1797. In July, 1803, Jefferson appointed 
Claiborne Governor of the Territory of Orleans, with the title of Governor 
General of the province, for a term of three years. In 1805 New Orleans 
was incorporated as a city, and in the following year many new laws were 
enacted. In 1809 5,000 refugees, with their slaves, from San Domingo, made 
their home in Louisiana. 

In 1810 Claiborne took possession of Baton Rouge and Mobile, which, up until 
now had been held by Spain. The Territory of Orleans was formed by Con- 
gess into the State of Louisiana in 1812, when Claiborne, who had by this 
time won the respect and admiration of the people of the State, offered 
himself for Governor, and was elected over his two popular opponents, Villere 
and Destrehan. The use of the French language was discontinued in the laws, 



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and the legislative power was formed into a Senate and House of Represen- 
tatives. 

On Jan. 8, 1815, was fought the battle of New Orleans, and in December 
Governor Claiborne's occupancy of the gubernatorial chair terminated. He 
had been for twenty years in the public service of his country. He was no 
longer eligible for Governor, but the people determined to use him, and elected 
him to the Senate of the United States, but he died before he could take his 
seat. 

Claiborne was connected by his three marriages with the most prominent 
families of Tennessee and Louisiana — the Lewises, Duraldes and Bosques— 
and, by that of his daughter, with Mandeville de Marigny. 

JAMES PHILIP VILLERE — 1816-1820. 

Villere was the first Creole chosen to govern the destinies of his native 
State. He was descended from a family of remarkable people, and was edu- 
cated by Louis XV, in reparation for the death of his father. He served under 
the king as a lieutenant in a regiment in San Domingo. He participated in 
the battle of New Orleans a major general of the State militia, and here he 
showed such great bravery that he was publicly complimented by General 
Jackson. He had been a member of the State convention in 1812 that had 
framed the first State Constitution. Under his care the prosperity of the State 
increased and sugar became the most important crop. He died on his plan- 
tion March 7, 1839, loved and respected by the whole State. 

THOMAS BOLLING ROBERTSON — 1820-1824. 

A Virginian by birth, possessing a large legal education, was a man of un- 
swerving honesty and the very embodiment of a gentleman. Claiborne ap- 
pointed him attorney general of the Territory of Orleans, and President Jef- 
ferson appointed him secretary of the territory in 1807. He was Louisiana's 
first representative to Congress, after she became a State, but he was forced, 
on account of ill health, to resign in 1818. He showed himself in every way 
true to the welfare of the State, and furthered by all the means in his power 
popular education. In November of 1824 Governor Robertson resigned his 
office to accept, at the hands of President Monroe, the United States judge- 
ship of the Louisiana district, but ill health forced him to resign, and he 
died Oct. 5, 1828. Louisiana has cauie to cherish the memory of Robertson. 

HENRY SCHUYLER THIBODAUX — 1824. 

Mr. Thibodaux became Governor of Louisiana in 1824, upon the resignation 
of Governor Robertson, and filled out the unexpired term. He married a 
granddaughter of Jacques Cartier, the great discoverer and explorer of Canada, 
and served his adopted State in various capacities for a long number of years. 
He was born in Albany, N. Y., of French parents, who died when he was a 
mere lad, and he was reared by the Schulyer family. 

HENRY JOHNSON— 1824-1828. 

For the thii'd time the highest office in the gift of the people of Louisiana 
was bestowed upon a Virginia by birth. He was a gentleman of talents, 
urbane, courteous and possessed of a keen insight into human nature, with a 
strong sense of justice and right. He had occupied many positions of honor 
and trust. He was a Whig, and his administration was a very satisfactory 
one. He served in the United States House of Representatives, in the United 
State Senate, and in almost every office in Louisiana within the gift of the 
people. He retired to his plantation in Pointe Coupee parish, where he dfed 



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at the age of 88 years, in 1867, and now lies sleeping where the murmuring 
waters of the Grosse Tete and Maingoin mingle. 

PIERRE DERBIGNY — 1828-1829. 

Derbigny was a talented and eloquent man of noble birth. He was a 
Frenchman, who was compelled to leave France during the terrible days of 
the revolution, first went to San Domingo and from thence to the United 
States, remaining awhile in Pittsburg, Pa., where he married the sister of 
the French commandant. He moved from there, first to Missouri, then to 
F^lorida, and finally came to Louisiana, where his talents soon made him 
recognized in New Orleans. In the latter part of the year 1803 Governor Clai- 
borne appointed him to the important post of interpreter of languages for the 
territory. He had the honor of delivering the first Fourth of July oration de- 
livered in the territory, and was in entire control of General Lafayette, his 
friend's, property in Louisiana. 

He became Governor on Dec. 1.5, 1828, but he was allowed by the Almighty 
to govern scarcely a year, for he was thrown from his carriage and so se- 
verely injured that he died five days later, and the City of New Orleans, as a 
tribute to his great poweis, turned out in a body to his funeral. 

ARMAND BEAUVAIS — 1829. 

Beauvais, being President of the Senate and ex-officio Lieutenant Governor, 
succeeded by constitutional light to the place left vacant by the death of 
Governor Derbigny. He occupied this chair until Jan. 14, 1830. Then he 
made an unsuccessful run against A. B. Roman for Governor, and was de- 
feated. From 18.33 until 1834 he was a State Senator in lieu of Mr. Chene- 
vert, who had resigned. 

JACQUES DUPRE, 1829-1831. 

Governor Dupre was a man of great native ability, a large stock owner, a 
plantation farmer and succeeded Beauvais as Governor of Louisiana. It was 
during his term of office that the raili-oad company of Pontchartrain was in- 
corporated, being the fifth of its kind in America. 

ANDREW BIENVENU ROMAN — 1831-183 5. 
Born in Opelousas, March 5, 1795, A. B. Roman was one of Louisiana's 
most distinguished Creoles. He was educated in St. Mary's College, near 
Baltimore, and purchased a sugar plantation in St. James Parish, which be- 
came his home. He was as prominent in his literary tastes as he was political- 
ly, and founded Jefferson College. When his term of office expired in 183.5, 
he retired to private life, but was called forth again in 1838 and was Gover- 
nor for a second term. He had the honor to be one of the three commission- 
ers chosen by the Confederate government to go to Washington to try to set- 
tle the diiferences between the sections amically. Too old to serve Louisiana 
in the armies of the South, he gave his sons, and today Louisiana honors his 
memory. 

EDWARD DOUGLAS WHITE — 183 5-1839. 

A native of Tennessee, a man of profound learning and experience in public 
life, was raised to the gubernatorial chair in 1835, and served a term of four 
years. Judge White came to Louisiana province with his father, prior to its 
cession to the United States. He was educated at the University of Tennes- 
see and studied law under Judge Porter of Louisiana. During his term of 
office the nation was stricken with a mania for establishing worthless banks, 
and Louisiana came in for her full share. The Legislature chartered seven 
new banks in the short space of four years. 

Governor White served his State for six terms in the lower House of Con- 



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gress, and, like his friend, Governor Johnson, was a stanch Whig. He had 
two sons, James, a physician, and Edward D., who is now Chief Justice of 
the United States Supreme Court. 

ALEXANDRE MOUTON — 1 843-1846. 

Illustrious son of Louisiana and the father of an illustrious race is Alexan- 
dre Mouton. He was born on Bayou Carencro, in Attakapas, Nov. 19, 1804, and 
at the time of his death was probably the oldest surviving United States Sena- 
tor. To him belongs the great honor of being the first Democrat to fill the 
executive chair. His family of today remain true to the Democratic principles 
which was the guiding star of this grand old soldier of the Democratic party. 
Alexandre Mouton was a descendant of one of the Arcadian refugee families, 
whom Longfellow's poem so immortalized. His first wife was the grand- 
daughter of General Jacques Dupre. He was the father of General Alfred 
Mouton, who was killed at Mansfield in 1864, and the father-in-law of General 
Gardener, who defended Port Hudson. 

Governor Mouton studied law in his youth, but, preferring the quiet of 
a country life, he quit law and went into the planting business near the town 
of Vermillionville. But his fellow-citizens, having confidence in him and his 
ability, called him again and again from the quiet of his country home to 
go into the world of government and ask and demand their rights. In 1826 
they chose him as their member to the State Legislature, re-electing him 
three times consecutively, and again in 1836. For two sessions he was Speaker 
of the House. In January, 1837, he was selected to fill the unexpired term 
of Judge Porter, and was chosen as his successor for the sixth term. While 
in Congress he was on many important committees. He resigned his posi- 
tion as United States Senator to accept the Governorship of his State. This 
term came to an end three years later, on account of an entire change in the 
Constitution. The Governor retired to private life again, but with no better 
success than before, as his friends sent him to the Cincinnati national con- 
vention of 1856. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic national con- 
vention at Charleston, S. C, and then, when Louisiana seceded from the 
Union, he was a delegate to and president of the secession convention in 
Baton Rouge. In all the positions of public and private life this grand old 
man of Louisiana covered himself with glory, leaving behind him the repu- 
tation of being the best Governor Louisiana had ever had. 

JOSEPH MARSHALL WALKER — 1850-1853. 

Born in New Orleans, he grew to manhood under the shadow of the old St. 
Louis Cathedral, and when he reached manhood he bought several planta- 
tions in Rapides Parish, with a legacy left by his grandmother. He was of 
French descent on the maternal side, and of English on the paternal side, and 
inherited the noble characteristics of both races. He was an unswerving 
Democrat, and led the fight against the Whigs in 1850, when the Whigs made 
a determined effort to crush out the Democratic party in Louisiana. He was 
victorious, and was inaugurated Governor of Louisiana Jan. 28, 1850. 

It was during his administration that the Cuban filibustering expeditions 
took place, and the leader of the expeditions from the United States, General 
Lopez, was executed by the Spanish authorities, whereupon the people of 
New Orleans, being in sympathy with the cause of the people of Cuba, formed 
a riot against the Spanish flag, for which the United States gave redress to 
Spain. The new Constitution of 1852 came into operation and Governor 
Walker resigned from the gubernatorial chair and no public office could tempt 
him to public life again. He died Jan. 26, 1856, and left a i-ecord on the an- 
nals of his State which is second to none. He filled his offices, public and pri- 
vate, civil and military, with honor. 



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PAUL OCTAVE HEBERT — 1853-1856. 

Educated at Jefferson College and West Point Military Academy, Paul 
Hebert entered the United States army as second lieutenant in the engineering 
corps. In 1841 he was made assistant professor of engineering at West Point, 
and sei-ved in that capacity until he was sent the next year to supervise the 
fortifications of the Barataria passes. He resigned from the United States 
army, and was made, by Governor Johnson, chief engineer for the State or 
Louisiana. When the Mexican war occurred he was made lieutenant colonel of 
the Fourteenth Infantry, and was soon given the rank of colonel on the field 
for bravery. He was made Governor of Louisiana in 1852. When the Civil 
War began President Davis made him one of the five brigadier generals of 
the Confederate army, where he served with distinction. He died April 20, 
1880, after a long and useful life. 

ROBERT CHARLES WICKLIFFE — 1856-1860. 

Governor Wickliffe's father was Charles Wickliffe, one time Governor of 
Kentucky, and afterwards Postmaster General of the United States. His 
father was a man of high attainments, and one of the leaders of this nation, 
and the son is not one whit the lesser. Governor Wickliffe was a Democrat 
and opposed to secession so long as the State could remain in the Union with 
honor. He lived in West Feliciana, where he was a member of the bar. He 
was twice married to two of the most prominent women of Louisiana and 
Kentucky. Mr. Wickliffe served the State for four years, beginning in 1856. 

THOMAS OVERTON MOORE — 1860-1864. 

A prominent North Carolinian by birth. Governor Moore came to Louisiana 
in his early yeais, and settled in Rapides Parish, where his political courss 
was so creditable that he was elected Governor in 1860. Being a believer in 
the principles of Jefferson and Jackson, and a fiery Democrat, he called a 
convention aat Baton Rouge on Jan. 2.';!, 1861, and this convention passed the 
ordinance of secession, which severed Louisiana's connection with the Union. 
When New Orleans passed into the hands of the Federals in 1862 Governor 
Moore called together the Legislature at Opelousas, ^hcn at Shreveport, where 
his term of office came to a close, and he surrendered his seat to Governor 
Allen. He died at his home in Rapides parish, June, 1876, aged 71 years. 

HENRY WATKINS ALLEN, Under C. S. A. — 1864-1865. 

"His spiritual influence is upon his kind; 

He lives in glory; and his speaking dust 

Has more of life than half its breathing molds." 

The idol of I^ouisianians of his d^y, and the object of worship in the year 
1916, Governor Allen, the war Governor of Louisiana, has a claim and hold 
on the hearts of the people of the Creole State, which will be cherished until 
the dawn of the resurrection morning. He was a Virginian by birth, and was 
educated in Marion College, Mo., but he left school and went to Mississippi, 
where he taught school and studied law. He married Miss Salone Crane, who 
brought him a nice dowry, but, dying soon after, Mr. Allen's craving for ex- 
citement and new scenes, i-easserted itself, and he removed to Tensas, La., and 
afterwards to West Baton Rouge, where he was honored with a position in 
the Legislature. When the war tocsin sounded he was in Cuba, but he has- 
tened home and was made lieutenant colonel of the Delta Rifles. He was 
soon made colonel, and a little later Military Governor of Mississippi. Being 
wounded at the battle of Baton Rouge, he allowed himself no more time than 
was necessary, and was appointed brigadier general in charge of the trans- 
mississippi department, and had hardly entered upon his new duties when he 
was unanimously chosen to the helm of state at Shreveport. In 1865, being 



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one of the proscribed, he sought solace in Mexico City, when a determined ef- 
fort was made to have him return and again be Governor of Louisiana. He 
was acting as editor of a paper in Mexico City when death overtook him. He 
was first buried in New Orleans, but afterward taken to Baton Rouge, where 
he was buried in the Capitol grounds, amid military pomp, and a marble shaic 
today marks his resting place. 

"Sleep on, thou great and mighty man; sleep, until, on the morning of the 
coming of the King, you arise, surrounded by the countless thousands who 
followed you in life, who died at your side, and who loved you in death." 

MICHAEL HAHN, Under U. S. A. — 1861-1865. 

Republican Governor of Louisiana, Michael Hahn was born in Bavaria, Ger- 
many, May 1, 1830. Soon after his birth his parents moved to New York and 
then to New Orleans. Here he graduated from the public schools, and entered 
Louisiana University, where he graduated in law, and began the practice 
of his chosen profession before he reached the legal age. He was a born 
politician, and a strong Union man, opposed to slavery and caring nothing for 
States' rights. After the capture of New Orleans by Farragut's fleet, he 
hastened to swear allegiance to the Union, and in the same year, 1862, was 
elected to Congress, where his able speech on "Louisiana's Cause" won for 
him his seat. 

He was elected Governor by Banks, and served until the State went under 
military rule. He was an able speaker and writer, and had the respect of 
many people in Louisiana. 

JAMES MADISON WELLS, Acting U. S. A. — 1865-1867. 

Was born in Louisiana, but reared outside of the State, where he returned 
on reaching manhood, and engaged in planting. In 1864 he was elected 
Lieutenant Governor on the Hahn ticket, and assumed the office after Hahn's 
resignation. He was chairman of the returning board of 1876, which decided 
the presidential contest in favor of Hayes. 

JOSHUA BAKER, Appointed by Military — 1867. 

Mr. Baker was born in Kentucky, March 23, 1799. His parents moved to 
Mississippi when he was 4 years of age, and subsequently to St. Mary's Par- 
ish. He graduated at West Point, and even before graduation he was ap- 
pointed assistant professor in the academy. Mr. Baker was a conservative 
Democrat, opposed to secession, and was appointed Governor by General Han- 
cock. He died at his daughter's home in Connecticut, and: 

"He fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long. 
Even wondered at because he dropped no sooner." 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLANDERS, Appointed — 1867. 

Born in New Hampshire, he came to Louisiana in 1843, and studied law and 
was admitted to the bar in New Orleans. He was a teacher by profession 
and accomplished wonders for the schools of the State. General Sheridan ap- 
pointed him Governor of Louisiana, and he resigned in six months. 

HENRY CLAY WARMOUTH — 1868-1873. 

Republican Governor of Louisiana, was born in Illinois in 1842, and began 
the practice of law in Missouri in 1860. When the Civil War began he joined 
the Federals, and served with distinction until 1865, when he resigned from 
the army and undertook the practice of law in New Orleans. He was elected 
the next year to Congress by the Republicans, but Congress would not allow 



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him to take his seat. In 18(i!S he was elected Governor in opposition to the 
candidate on the Independent ticket. 

JOHN McENERY, De Jure — 1873. 
A Virginian by birth, educated ai Hanover College, Law University of New 
Orleans, he began the practice of law in Monroe, La., where he was register 
of the Land Office until he was removed by President Buchanan because he 
advocated the election of Judge Dcuglass. During the war between the 
States he served with distinction in both the Virginia and Georgia fields, and 
was several times promoted on the field of battle for bravery. In 1871 he was 
nominated for Governor by the Democrats, by the Democrats and ReformerSj 
and by the Democrats and Liberals. He carried the State by a majority of 
10,000, but was counted out by the Republican returning board. 

WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG, De Facto — 1873-1877. 

Came to Louisiana from Vermont to reap the spoils of war, was W. P. 
Kelloog. He was a soldier in the Northern army as colonel of the Seventh 
Illinois Cavalry. The last official signature of Lincoln was that signed to a 
commission of Kellogg as collector of the New Orleans port. He was elected 
Republican Senator to the United States Senate in 1868. He resigned from the 
Senate to become candidate for Governor of Louisiana on the Republican 
ticket in 1872. 

McEnery was elected Governor, but was counted out in favor of Kellogg, 
and he occupied the gubernatorial chair for four years, under the protest of 
the people of Louisiana. The result of this occupancy was the memoi-ial 14th 
of September, when Kellogg hid in the Customhouse of New Orleans behind 
Federal bayonets. No monument has been built to his memory by the people 
of Louisiana. 

FRANCIS TILLOU NICHOLLS — 1877-1879. 

"Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche." 

Governor Nicholls was born at Donaldsonville, La., and after finishing at 
the public schools of that city he graduated at West Point. He served for sev- 
eral years in the regular army of the United States, when he resigned to take 
up the study of law. At the outbreak of the war he donned the gray, and 
was appointed in 1862 as colonel of the Second Louisiana Brigade. He served 
throughout the war, losing an arm at Winchester and a foot at Chancellors- 
ville. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law in his native 
town, and when the people of Louisiana could no longer endure the evils of 
the carpetbag government, they called on Francis T. Nicholls to lead them 
in their second great struggle. He was nominated Governor in 1876 by the 
Democratic party, and, although he was elected by over eight thousand ma- 
jority, the notorious Packard was declared by the corrupt returning board 
the Governor. Nicholls brushed aside this decision and by force seized upon 
the government and established a de jure government, which the Federal au- 
thorities were forced to recognize. He served out his term and, was iigain 
called to the gubernatorial chair in 1888, and served until 1892. During this 
latter term he led the fight against the Louisiana lottery, which was crushing 
the people of this fair State with the grasp of the octupus, and, thanks to 
this noble chivalier, its baneful influence over the homes, minds and morals 
of Louisiana was removed, as we hope, never to be brought back. 

At the close of his second term as Governor he was appointed chief justice 
of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, which he filled with great credit. Lou- 
isiana is deeply thankful to the Almighty that such a man as Francis T. Nich- 
olls was allowed to open his eyes on Louisiana soil, and die in the service of 
the land he loved even as a mother loves her newborn infant. 



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LOUIS ALFRED WILTZ — 1 8 79-1881. 

Was born in New Orleans, Jan. 21, 1843, and educated in the public schools 
of that city, and when he was scarcely 18 he volunteered as a private in the 
Orleans artillery, and before reaching his majority he was elected captain of 
Company "E" of the Chalmette Regiment. After the war he entered politics 
in his native city, and served on the School Board, served as its president, 
was twice a candidate for Mayor of New Orleans, and was counted out the 
first time, but succeeded the second time. He was Lieutenant Governor under 
Nicholls. Subsequently he was President of the Constitutional Convention and 
became the choice of the people for the gubernatorial office in 1879. Hardly 
two years of his term had expired when his soul took flight from his body, 
and all of Louisiana was thrown in mourning, and never will Louisiana for- 
get the brilliant young man who served her so faithfully in peace as well as 
in war. 

SAMUEL DOUGLAS McENERY — 18 81-1888. 

Lieutenant Governor McEnery succeeded to the executive chair by constitu- 
tional right, upon the death of Governor Wiltz, and served out the remainder 
of the term, and then the people of Louisiana elected him on his merits for 
a term of his own. On leaving the Governor's chair he was appointed asso- 
ciate justice of the State Supreme Court. He was educated for law and served 
throughout the Civil War, and advanced to the rank of lieutenant in the regu- 
lar army. 

MURPHY J. FOSTER — 1892-18 96. 

Mr. Foster was elected Governor of Louisiana after one of the most mem- 
orable campaigns ever known in the history of the State, and is known a? 
the anti-lottery campaign, which extended over a period of two years. His 
conduct in the fight was bold, manly and masterly. He began the fight while 
in the State Senate, when the lottery company offered the State $1,250,000 for 
an extension of its chaiter. After a bitter fight the Senate decided to submit 
the proposition to the people, whereupon Murphy J. Foster led the fight against 
it, being nominated as Governor for the anti-lottery people. So vigorously 
did he conduct his campaign that the lottery company, with unlimited money 
and the State press behind them, withdrew from the field before the election. 

He was trained at Washington and Lee University and Cumberland Uni- 
versity, and was graduated from the law school of Tulane University in 1871. 
He has occupied many positions of trust since being Governor, and is now Col- 
lector of Customs at the Port of New Orleans. 

A man of spotless integrity, highest morals, not afraid to stand for prin- 
ciple against the politicians, a lover of truth, a friend to you in time of need, 
as well as in sunshine, this grand old man of the early days of the new South 
has the love and esteem of every well meaning man in Louisiana. May his 
days be long and when the time comes for him to depart this life, may he 
be, as now, in the bosom of his friends. 

HON. WILLIAM WRIGHT HEARD — 1900-1904. 

Hon. William Wright Heard was governor of Louisiana from 1900 to 1904, 
and during his administration Louisiana took a decided step forward in the 
matter of levees, schools, and agricultural developments. He was decidedly 
a governor whom the people trusted, and, of course, his term was one llled 
with good feeling. He was born on a farm in North Louisiana in 1853 of 
parents who came from Georgia. 

When the Civil War broke out all of the Heard boys who were old enough 
went to the army. William being too young to bear arms, remained at home, 



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and on his young shoulders fell the burden of supporting his mother and sisters. 
At the close of the war he attended the Farmcrville school and received prac- 
tically all of his academic education there. In 1876 he was elected clerk of the 
District Court, and at the close of his term he, served as deputy for several 
years. In 1892 he was elected to the lower branch of the General Assembly, 
and subsequently to the Senate. Here he took a decided stand in opposition '.o 
the Louisiana lottery, which was applying for a renewal of its charter, and 
the attention thus attracted led to his being elected State auditor, and 'our 
years later he was re-elected. The Democratic party in 1900 nominated him 
for governor of the State of Louisiana, and he was elected by a large majority. 
Governor Heard became a member of the Baptist Church in 1870, and for 
several years was president of the Baptist State convention. 

HON- NEWTON GRAIN BLANCHARD, GOVERNOR, 1904-1908. 

Born in obscurity, yet rising by his own efforts until he has held every of- 
fice of dignity and honor within the gift of the people of Louisiana, is the 
story of the life of Nevrton C. Blanchard. He was boi-n on a cotton planta- 
tion in Rapides Parish, on January 29, 1849, and his early life was passed 
there. Here he learned those lessons of thrift and industry which have 
marked out this man as one that the people of Louisiana are glad to honor. 

His early education was acquired at private schools and the Louisiana State 
University, and in 1870 he graduated from the Law Department of Tulan» 
University. He began practice in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1871, and imme- 
diately took his place as leader of the bar of that section, a place which he 
holds today. In 1876 he was elected as chairman of the Democratic Executive 
Committee of Caddo Parish, and three years later chosen as a delegate to the 
Constitutional Convention, where he was chaii-man of the important committee 
on Federal relations. With the rank of Major he served on the staff of Gov- 
ernors Wilts and McEnery, and at the same time was the Louisiana trustee 
of the University of the South, located at Sewanee, Tennessee. In 1880 he 
was elected by the people of his district to represent them in the United States 
Congress, and while there won such a reputation for thrift and industry and 
ability that the people of Louisiana elected him as one of their United States 
Senators in 1893, but four years later he resigned to accept a place as asso- 
ciate justice on the Louisiana Supreme Bench, and remained there until 1904, 
when he was elected to be Governor of the State of Louisiana. 

Mr. Blanchard is Democrat, and always ready to obey the behests of his 
party. In the election of 1916 he actively helped elect Col. Ruffin G. Pleas- 
ant Governor, when the Democratic party was assailed by the Progressive 
party. He lives in Shreveport at the present time, where he divides his time 
between his law practice,which has reached immense proportions, and his farm- 
ing interests. He is always the friend of the people, whether as an office holder, 
a delegate to conventions, or as a member of the national committee, in which 
organization he ably represented Louisiana for many years. He is one of .he 
greatest and grandest men that Louisiana has ever produced. 



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JARED YOUNG SANDERS — 1 908-1912. 

Governor Sanders was born near Morgan City, St. Mary parish, La., on Jan. 
29, 1869. He is a son of J. Y. and Bessie (Wolford) Sanders. His father 
was a Confederate veteran and died in 1881 just before the floods destroyed 
almost all of his property. The bad financial conditions that the destruction 
of home, barns, stock and all improvements on the farm left the Sanders 
family made it necessary for Jared, the future governor, to shoulder the burden 
of earning a livelihood for his mother and his eight brothers and sisters. This 
the young man did with a heroism rarely displayed by boys in similar circum- 
stances. Securing a position as a clerk in a store he worked faithfully ana 
improved his education in spare moments and at night. Later he entered the 
office of the St. Mary Banner, and his ability soon took him from setting type 
to the editorship of the paper. This was in 1890. He studied law under the 
best lawyers in Franklin, and entered Tulane University and graduated from 
the law department in 1894. The same month after graduation he was ad- 
mitted to the bar and formed a partnership with the name of Sigur and San- 
ders. \n 1898 the firm became Sigur, Milling & Sanders, but in January, 
1900, Mr. Sigur retii-ed, and in July of that year Foster, who had just served 
out his term as governor of Louisiana, joined the firm, with the name of Foster, 
Milling & Sanders. In 1907 Sanders withdrew from the pai-tnership and be- 
gan to practice by himself. 

His political life began in 1892, when he was elected to the lower house of 
the General Assembly, where he served for twelve years. In 1900 he was 
chosen speaker of the House by a unanimous vote, the first time such had 
ever occurrerd in the annals of Louisiana. At the close of this four year period 
he was elected lieutenant governor on the ticket with Newton Crain Blanchard, 
p.nd in 1908 he became governor of the State. He aspired to the United States 
Senate at the close of his term, but was defeated. He is now in the race for 
Congressman from the Sixth Congressional District. 



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LUTHER EGBERT HALL — 1912-1916. 
Retiring Governor of Louisiana. 

Luther Egbert Hall has held practically every office within the gift of the 
people. Although still a young man he has been district judge, judge of the 
Court of Appeals, and was elected to the Supreme Bench. From the latter 
position he resigned before taking his scat at the call of the people to run for 
Governor of the State. He was elected overwhelmingly for this position on a 
reform ticket and has just finished serving his four years .service as Governor. 
Mr. Hall's political career has nowise ended with the governorship, for a man 
of his strength and character will always be found at the front fighting what- 
ever battles are to be fought for justice and right. Mr. Hall was born at 
Bastrop, Morehouse parish, in August, 1869, and had the usual country school 
education. He prepared himself to teach, and did teach school, for a while nt 
his home town and ran a plantation for his father at the same time. Later he 
entered Washington and Lee University and took the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts from that institution and took up a course in civil law at Tulane Uiver- 
s'ty and began to practice law at Bastrop. In 1892 he married Miss Julia 
Clara Wendel, and their marriage has been blesssed with two children, Luther, 
Jr., and Clara, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hall took a leading part in the social life of 
Baton Rouge and New Orleans, belonging to the country clubs and social or- 
ganizations of both cities. 

Governor and Mrs. Hall leave Baton Rouge to the regret of a host of friends 
made in this city, for they both took an active interest in the town, its social, 
religious and educational life. Mrs. Hall had the good fortune of having with 
her to entertain at the Governor's Mansion her charming sister, Mrs. Percy 
Stout; but what is the loss of Baton Rouge will be the gain of New Orleans, 
and well wishes by the hundreds have followed the family to New Orleans. 



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COLONEL RUFFIN G. PLEASANT, 

Governor, 1916-1920. 



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The true test of the character of a person is, of course, his private life. His 
conduct when on parade, so to speak, indicates little. It is what he is doing 
when he does not expect his actions to meet the public eye that counts. That 
is the test which should be applied to a man seeking public office, for judg- 
ment based on that standard is far and away superior to the judgment based 
on the public acts of a man on the public stage. 

It is by this standard that the friends of Col. Ruffin G. Pleasant wish him to 
be judged in this administration. They desire it because, with their knoweldge of 
the character of the man, they are certain he will meet it at every point. Ruf- 
fin G. Pleasant is not a show man. Plain and sturdy as his native hills, his 
character is such that it may be viewed steadily and viewed whole without de- 
basement of the object. A man of the people, the sturdy American stock, 
which reared homes in the virgin wilderness, and occupied them in the fear of 
God, and with the esteem of their neighbors, he is of the type which one should 
wish to have at his right shoulder in any relation of life. 

Ruffin G. Pleasant was born at Shiloh, Union Parish, La., of parents on both 
sides who represented the best in American citizenship. His mother, in 
the language of Governor Heard, who knew Mrs. Pleasant well all his life, was 
one of the best women with whom God ever blessed the earth. His father, long 
sheriff of Union parish, was of that pure American type which carried civili- 
zation into the wilderness and conquered the wild for posterity. Ever west- 
ward strode that red-blooded type of man until progress was barred by the 
vastness of the Pacific. Colonel Pleasant's father was a boy of seventeen 
years of age when the call to arms sounded in the sixties, and he answered the 
call, and until the close of the conflict, bore himself manfully in that titanic 
struggle, which put to its supreme test the best manhood of the south. 

Returning home at the close, broken in fortune, but with unbreakable spirit, 
he set about to repair the ravages of war, to be met by the perhaps sterner 
ordeal of reconstruction. In this contest he also bore himself after a manner 
to arouse the admiration of his neighbors, and when he and others had re- 
deemed the State, his neighbors took him from the modest farm where his 
son, Ruffin, was born, and elected him sheriff of Union Parish, because the 
time demanded such a man for the place. For term after term he was re- 
elected, and his farm prospered so that he would have died a prosperous man, 
but for his boundless hospitality. His home in Union Parish was open to any 
respectable person in the parish, and so freely was his hospitality taken ad- 
vantage of that his home became known as Pleasant's Hotel. The effect on a 
man of modest means may well be imagined. When he had reached an age 
when he should have retired and lived the remainder of his life at ease, he 
found himself broken in pocket. 

Ruffin G. Pleasant was born June 2, 1872. He went to school at Concord 
Institute, Shiloh; at the public school at Farmerville; at Ruston College, in 
1885; at Mt. Lebanon College, in 1887-1889; and at the Louisiana State Uni- 
versity for the term of 1890-1894, where he was graduated with the degree of 
bachelor of arts, and was adjutant of the cadet corps and captain of both the 
football and baseball teams. He taught at his alma mater for two years after 
his graduation, attending the Harvard summer school of law in 1895. He then 
attended the Yale law school for a term, when he learned of the condition of 
his father's finances. He at once threw aside his ambition, and returned to his 
native State to assist in the support of his father's family. 

With the knowledge of the young man's character possessed by the of- 



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ficials of the State University he had no trouble in securing a place in the 
faculty, and was made professor of international and constitutional law and 
civics, and was also assistant commandant of cadets from September, 1897, 
until he went to the Spanish-American war in 1898. 

The struggle of the young student when he took upon himself the burden of 
his father's family is known only to those who were closest to him at the time. 
Securing a professorship at the State University, he resolved that his brothers 
and his sisters should receive the best education that his exertions could win 
for them. The elder brother was carried through the peparatory courses and 
finally matriculated at the State University. Had Colonel Pleasant's wishes 
been followed he would have been graduated from that institution and then 
have been given the advantages of a professional career. But the younger 
brother was composed of the same stern stuff that made up his elder brother's 
character. He did not think that he should be a source of expense to his strug- 
gling brother, and he left the university to carve out his own career. He is 
now an honored and a useful citizen of Oklahoma. 

The youngest brother was then taken in hand and Ruffin Pleasant deter- 
mined that his education should be completed. He, too, was sent to school at 
the State University, but fate barrred the way to the altruistic ambition of 
the older brother. The young student contracted illness and physicians ad- 
vised that he could not live unless he was sent to another climate. Col. Pleas- 
ant sent him in care of his father to another State in the hope that his health 
would be restored, but the youth died. 

"Desolate, yet all undaunted," the young college professsor then centered 
his hope on his two sisters. The elder died shortly after her graduation. The 
younger girl received the best education this State could afford, and, develop- 
ing musical talent, was sent to the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she 
graduated a finished musician. The young lady is now engaged in the useful 
profession of teacher in Bienville parish. 

While serving as professsor at the State University, the war with Spain 
broke out, and true to "form" Ruffin Pleasant again made a prompt decision. 
He resigned from the faculty and was made Lieutenant Colonel of the First 
Louisiana Volunteer Regiment. His career in the field was not distinguished 
for the same reason that no volunteer acquired distinction — the opportunity 
was not offered. 

After being mustered out of sei'vice, Col. Pleasant made his home in Shreve- 
port, in December, 1898, and was admitted to the bar the following year. He 
became city attorney of Shreveport in 1902, and was re-elected in 1904 and 
1906. In 1908 he made the race for Attorney General of the State, but was 
defeated by Attorney General Guion, the incumbent. Outside of the City of 
New Orleans, however, Col. Pleasant ran considerably ahead of his competitors. 
No hostility had been aroused by his campaign and he became the assistant to 
Gen. Guion from 1908 to 1912. He became a candidate for the office again in 
1912, and was nominated by the largest vote ever given a Democrat in this 
State, carrying fifty-eight parishes and obtaining more than 70,000 votes. 

Col. Pleasant was married on Feb. 14, 1906, to Miss Anne Ector, youngest 
daughter of Gen. Matthew D. Ector. His charming wife is a woman of culture 
and splendid personality. Mrs. Pleasant's father. Gen. Ector, entered the Con- 
federate army at the very outbreak of the war as a private in Company B, 
Third Cavalry, Col. Cumby. The regiment was attached to Ross' Brigade. 
Private Ector was later elected First Lieutenant of his company and soon be- 
came Adjutant of the regiment. He was twice promoted for gallanti-y on the 
field, first to Colonel of the Fourteenth Texas Regiment and later to Brigadier 
General. He commanded his brigade until he was seriously wounded at At- 
lanta, Ga. When he was able to return to duty President Davis ordered him 



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to take command of the Confederate troops at Mobile. On his way there news 
reached him of the surrender of Gen. Lee. 

Gen. Ector returned to Texas and resumed the practice of law. He served 
as District Judge for several years. Later he became a judge of the Texas 
Court of Appeals, and at the time of his death he had for several years been 
the presiding justice of that court. 

In 1909 Col. Pleasant was made president of the alumni society of the State 
University, and still holds that position. This is characteristic of the man. 
The men of his university who knew him intimately, as only school boys can 
know each other, have given him the highest position in their gift, and the sol- 
diers of the F'irst Louisiana Regiment, both officers and enlisted men, are al- 
most unanimously with him, heart and soul 

As attorney general, Col. Pleasant had been of vast advantage to his State, 
and in one conspicuous effort, ihe winning of the Shreveport Rate Case in the 
highest court in the land, brought about jurisprudence that was of great ad- 
vantage to the business and agricultural interests of Louisiana. Not in recent 
years has the Supreme Court of the United States rendered such an important 
and far-reaching decision. This is only one of many unusual and succcessful 
activities in the Attorney General's office. 

Decision of character, frankness of disposition, and a subordination of self 
t'l the interests of the masses has always been the guide of Col. Pleasant'? con- 
duct. 

With his usual decision and frankness Col. Pleasant opposed the Constitution- 
al Convention. He went to Baton Rouge and fought the scheme from the begin- 
ning. He asked for the defeat of the measure on the ground that it was im- 
possisble to call such a convention in the midst of what was certain to be a 
hot political campaign, when matters of the gravest importance to the inter- 
ests of the people of the State would be subordinated to the selfishness of 
politicians. He was temporarily blocked in his efforts, but he continued the 
fight and succeeded in defeating the main purpose of t.se protagonists of ihe 
scheme by compelling those who were trying to fasten a constitution of their 
own manufacture upon an unwilling people, to agree to submit the question 
of calling the convention, and later the adoption of the instrnment, to a vote 
of the people. Thus he won the main battle before the Legislature and later 
won the complete campaign before the people, a contest of particular brilliancy 
and with odds against him that made his opponents gasp at his succcess. 

Due to the action of the National Democratic party in putting sugar on the 
free list, a wave of ProgressivLsm swept the Thii-d Congressional District of 
Louisiana and elected a Progressisve to the United States Congress. At a 
State Convention held in New Orleans the Progressives nominated Hon. John 
M. Parker, a planter of East Carroll parish and a commission merchant in 
New Orleans, together with Hon. Edwin S. Broussard, brother to Senator 
Robert Broussard, for their standard bearers. Mr. Parker is a succcess in 
business and of fine executive ability. The Progressives made a determined 
fight, assisted by the National Progressive party, which contributed a large 
amount to assist the campaign, and they polled in April, 1916, a little over 
48,000 votes. Col. Ruffin G. Pleasant was elected, however, with a majority of 
nearly .38,000. 

Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant was inaugurated Chief Executive of the State of 
Louisiana on May 15, 1916, at 12:15 o'clock, under the spreading oaks on the 
northwest corner of the State grounds in the presence of more than 5,000 peo- 
ple who had journeyed to the State capitol to see their idol take the scepter 
of State in his hands. 



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HON. FERNAND MOUTON, 

Lieutenant Governor of the State of Louisiana. 



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The countcnar.ee of the State of Louisiana would be a sad one without the 
iirmes and genius of its French citizenship emblazoned thereon. To the long 
roll of eminent names and geniuces that have figured in the construction, en- 
richment, and maintenance of the State of Louisiana must be added that of 
Fernand Mouton, the present Lieutenant Governor. The son of Thomas and 
Anais (Babin) Mouton, he was born at Breaux Bridge, La., on October 18, 
1878. His father V7as a native of Lafayette Parish and his mother of St. 
Martin. Both parents passed through the trying experiences of the Civil War, 
the mother at home caring for the family, and the father at the front fighting. 
Tlic father saw service throughout the entire period of the War, enlisting with 
the first call to arms and surrerdering on the declaration of peace. The 
parental grandfather, named Louis Mouton, was also a native of Lafayette 
Pr.risti, a wealthy planter and r. large slave owner. 

The Mouton family came to Louisiana with the Arcadians of history, song 
and story in 1765, making the long and perilous journey from their far away 
?.omc in snow clad Nova Scotia to the sun-kissed plains of Southern Louisiana. 
The Mouton family has long been identified with social, political, and agricultu- 
ral pursuits and interests throughout its history in Louisiana and the present 
subject of this biographical sketch followed the traditions of the family in these 
respects. The dire circumstances that overwhelmed the South and this State 
in particular during the Civil War and Reconstiuc'ion days caught this family 
in its dragnet and rendered it reduced in wealth and property; nothing was 
saved -rom th; wreckage except their ability to do and to work. 

On account of these circumstances young Mouton was deprived of college 
educational advantages, and his school days were limited to what he could 
acquire in private schools and from private teachers near his home. His was 
not to r.iourn and lament this calamity but to turn his very misfortunes into 
stepping stones to success. He saw the opportunities that wore spread before 
him and the "acres of diamonds" that were seemingly hidden beneath his feet 
and he determined to make use of his native ability and to prove himself worthy 
of his forbearers who for reasons of conscience had travelled in boat, in wagon 
and on foot thousands of miles to establish a new community and a new home. 

He went to Lafayette and there found employment in a mercantile estab- 
lishment at a very modest salary; but he gladly availed himself of the oppor- 
tunity to earn real money and by frugal living and careful saving he amassed 
sufficient funds to carry him to Draughon's Business College in Nashville, 
Tenn. He was graduated from this institution after successfully completing 
the courses, and he took the first available position as a fruit tree salesman 
and devoted his abilities to this business for two years. With some capital 
saved he returned to Lafayette and engaged in the insurance business on his 
own account. From the time of his embarkment in this business, success was 
phenominal and his unusual success focussed upon him the attention of the 
big men in the insurance company. In 1903 he was selected by the New York 
Life Insurance Company for the important position of Superintendent of the 
company in France, with headquarters in Paris. Romance, indeed, is more 
peculiar to real human life than to fancy and imagination. Here the exile of 
;200 years and thousands of miles had returned to the native land of his ances- 
tors to introduce the ideas that had grown in the far continent to the West. 

With this opportunity before him he gained indeed a far better education 
than could have been gained in the finest colleges and universities. He 
thought, he studied, he learned, he travelled. His work was a success and 
after one year's sojourn in Paris he w'as transferred back to the United States, 
returning to Lafayette to marry the love of his boyhood days. Miss Sadie 
Mouton. In 1904 he was sent back to France as Agency Director at a very 
handpome salary, but on account of his wife's ho.ilth he was obliged to give 
up this positi r with its brilliant future and return home. 



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Upon his return he re-entered the insurance in Lafayette ann has continued 
with it until tlie present day. In addition to this, in 1910, he with others, or- 
gui.ized tlie Peoples Eank and Trust Company of Lafayette and he was one 
of its first directors aiul later its Vice-president. Besides the bank and insur- 
ance company, he organized the Consumers Cold Storage and Canning Com- 
pany of Lafayette, and was elected president of that organization; he also took 
a leading part in organizing and establishing the Home and Loan Association 
of the same town, and is a member of its Board of Directors. In connection 
with these other activities the Lieutenant Governor is largely interested in 
planting; a member of Mouton & Marshall Company, insurance and real estate; 
organizer of the principal publishing company of Lafayette; the publisher of 
a daily newspaper, and the largest stockholder. 

Of course, when he became of age he cast his first ballot as a private in 
the Democratic ranks, and why shouldn't he? Did not his ancestors come to 
this country to establish a democracy ? Born in the party he has lived in and 
with the party during his whole life, and has held positions of all ranks within 
the gift of this child of Jefferson. He was appointed by Governor Blanchard 
as Councilman of his own town, and he served in that capacity for many years. 
In 1912 he was elected to the Louisiana State Senate, and served on the fol- 
lowing committees: Finance, Agriculture, Commerce and Levees, Public Roads 
and Highways, Health and Correction, Drainage and Charitable Institutions, 
State Bank and Banking, Auditor and Supervisor of the Senate, and Old 
Basin and Carondelet Canal. His was the distinction of serving on a larger 
number of committees than did any other member of the Legislature. In the 
election of 1912 he received all but 180 of the total votes cast in his parish, 
and every single vote in his precinct; he polled a majority of 2,500 in the dis- 
trict, thus forever abolishing the Biblical passage, "A prophet is not without 
honor save in his own country." 

When the war horses of Democracy were led to their first battlefield in twen- 
ty years, in 1916, to meet an enemy that had grown and multiplied like the 
sands of the sea, in three months, and when the leaders were casting about 
for men who could lead the host to battle, and put the enemy to flight, they 
chose as one of the generals, second in command, Fernand Mouton, of Lafa- 
yette, and intrusted him with the responsible position of saving whatever por- 
tions he could of the rebellious and insurgent Third and Seventh Districts to 
Democracy. Their faith was well placed, their confidence fully realized in 
their choice. Democracy was triumphant in the following election, and the 
enemy so dispersed, scattered, and discouraged, that he will not have the heart 
to muster his hosts for battle for another twenty years to come. 

The Lieutenant Governor is a Roman Catholic, a Knight of Columbus an 
Elk, and a Woodman of the World. Governor Hall appointed him major of 
his staff, he being the only member of the Legislature to be thus honored. 
He has a happy home in Lafayette, with his wife and four children. While 
he feels and appreciates the honors that have come to him in public and in 
private life, yet he is happiest within the sacred bounds of his home, with his 
wife and family. He is a living example of a man who has come into the 
highest honors in public and in private life, with no other assets than a think- 
ing mind, an honest heart, and the will to do. He enjoys the confidence of 
his friends and neighbors and stands as a shining mark for the young men of 
today to imitate, to emulate, and to make them gird their loins for the battle 
of life, for he has succeeded and has risen high in the State. Shall we wish 
him any less honor than his family has attained before him ? Alexander Mou- 
ton, a grand uncle, was honored with the highest trust of the people of Louis- 
iana in 1844, sei-ving as Governor of his State, and as United States Senator. 
C. H. Mouton, another uncle, served the people as Lieutenant Governor, and 
Fernand Mouton, Lieutenant Governor, a young man of thirty-eight, what have 
the fates still in store for him ? 



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HON. JAMES J. BAILEY, 
Secretary of State of Louisiana. 

The Hon. .James J. Bailey, the genial Secretary of 5i,ate, was a leading mem- 
ber of the bar and one of the hardest workers for Democracy in the State of 
Louisiana. Mr. Bailey has long been considered one of Democracy's chief 
wheel-horses in the State, giving freely of his time, labor and brains, and being 
at all times in demand because of his oratorical powers, and made a record for 
himself end for the State while serving in the Legislature years ago. He is 
possibly better known to the voters of the State personally than any other man 
within its confines, having had the pleasure when running for Lieutenant 
Governor of carrying fifty-seven pari.';hes out of a total of sixty. He is a 
solid business man, he believes in his native State and its future and is always 
found in the front ranks in any movement helpful to the State and in bringing 
into the community new blood and capital. 

Mr. Bailey possesses an attractive personality, and he numbers his friends 
and acquaintances by the thousands throughout the entire length and breadth 
of the State. He is one of the most entertaining story tellers and talkers, quick 
to help his friends, knows the needs of the State, and will undoubtedly make 
one of the most efficient Secretaries of State that we have had in many years. 



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His well wishers are numbered among the thousands, for he is a man of char- 
acter and integrity, loyal and trife, and undoubtedly will climb the ladder of 
success rapidly. He is a member of the Elks and other fraternal organiza- 
tions, a good citizen, and has a beautiful home in the city of Baton Rouge. 

In 1908 he married Mrs. Fannie Buffington, and the union is blessed with 
two children, Fannie and Jim, .Jr. Mrs. Bailey was born and raised in the 
parish of East Baton Rouge, and Mr. Bailey is a native of Opelousas, St. Lan- 
dry parish, but moved to the city of Baton Rouge in 1910, and has been a citi- 
zen of that town since. 

In the last election Mr. Bailey traveled throughout the State in the interest 
cf the candidacy of Governor Pleasant, and used his personality and oratorical 
ability to the full — helping to keep the State within the Democratic column. 




HON. PAUL CAPDEVIELLE, 

Auditor of the State of Louisiana. 

Mr. Capdevielle was born in the city of New Orleans in the year 1842, of 
French descent. His father came direct from France to Louisiana when he 
was a young man at the age of 18 and became a merchant of prominence. For 
many years he held conspicuous places in the State of Louisiana, serving under 
Presidents Pierce and Buchanan as appraiser general of customs at New Or- 
leans. He died at the age of 69 years in 1876, leaving three sons and two 
ttaughters. One of the sons is the present State Auditor. 

He was educated at the Jesuits College in New Orleans, from whence he 
graduated in 1861, and at the opening of the Civil War he became a member of 
the New Orleans Guard Regiment of Infantry, and in 1862 he joined Boone's 
Louisiana Battery, and was captured at Port Hudson. He was soon paroled 
and joined Legardeur's Battery and served until the close of the war, when 
he was paroled at Greensboro, S. C. He walked home, and without means he 
applied himself diligently to the first occupation that was offered. In the 
meantime he studied law. On April 8, 1868, he graduated in law from Tulane 
University, and thereafter until 1892 was actively and successfully engaged 
in the practice of law in New Orleans. He rose rapidly in his profession and 
in business. So rapidly did he rise in business that he was compelled to re- 
tire from the practice of law and look after his business. He was president 



— Page Thirty-two 



ol the Merchants' Insurance Company for thirteen years, until the company 
was sold and liquidated. 

In 1877 Mr. Capdevielle was appointed as a member of the State School 
Board, which he served for several years. The people of New Orleans called 
him back as their mayor in 1899, which he held for five years. As a mayor he 
was one of the most popular men who ever occupied that high and e.xalted 
liosition. He had chai-ge of laying the groundwork for the drainage and water 
systems which have since made this city one of the most healthy in the world. 

In November, 1904, he was appointed by Govei-nor Blanchard as auditor of 
public accounts. He was elected auditor in 1908, re-elected in 1912 and re- 
elected in 1916. He is now serving his fourth term in this position, where he 
has distinguished himself for careful and painstaking care of the affairs of 
the State. 

Mr. Capdevielle was decorated in 1902 by the French government with 'Ae 
Cross of the Legion of Honor, and in the same year King Oscar of Norway and 
Sweden decorated him with the Cross of Commander of the Order of Saint 
OlafF, a distinction rarely conferred on an American citizen. The United 
Daughters of the Confederacy have decorated him with the Cross of Honor, 
and in 1904 St. Louis University gave him the degree of L. L. D. He is a 
Roman Catholic, a member of the Elks, Knights of Columbus, St. Vincent de 
Paul Society, and other fraternal organizations. 




HON. HENRY HUNSICKER, Treasurer State of Louisiana. 

When the Democratic ticket triumphed in the past election, Mr. Hunsicker 
became our State Treasurer. Louisiana is indeed fortunate in having so dis- 
tinguished and able a State Treasurer for with our debt of $11,000,000 the 
Treasury Department is a very responsible office. Mr. Hunsicker was born at 
Shreveport, La., Aug. 2, 1859, and is still a resident of Shreveport. Our State 
Treasurer received his early education in the private school of his home town. 
Unlike most youths, he was fortunate in being able to visit Europe, where he 
attended school for two years. When he returned to America, and incidentally 
to Louisiana, he entered upon a commercial life. But realizing that the law 
offered a man of his ability greater opportunities, he began its study in a law 
office in Shreveport. On this account he received a very pract'cal law train- 
ing, and was admitted to the bar. The people of Caddo Parish, realizing that 
they had within their midst a man of exceptional talents, sent him to the 



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State Legislature for eight consecutive years. By this time Mr. Hunsicker 
had won such an enviable reputation as a statesman that his name was placed 
on the Democratic ticket for State Treasurer, an office which he won by a 
overwhelming majority. Mr. Hunsicker takes his office with the full confi-" 
dence of the people, and if he only makes half as good a Treasurer as a states- 
man, Louisiana will be more than pleased. 

Mr. Hunsicker was married October 6, 1880 to Miss Mary E. Bond. Mr. 
Hunsicker is not only well known in political lines, but fraternally, he is a 
member of quite a few fraternal organizations, among which are the L 0. R. 
Men and the Masons. 




H. T. HARRIS, State Superintendent of Education. 



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HON. ALDOLPHE VALERY COCO, 

Attorney General of the State of Louisiana. 

Representative of the State of Louisiana in all courts of law and giving her 
officers of the administration advice on weighty matters of government is the 
duty of Judge A. V. Coco, Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, who 
was elected to that position in 1016. Mr. Coco was born in Avoyelles parish 
on March 21, 1857, the son of Adolphe Dominicque and Heloise (Sheldon) 
Coco, the former of who was a native of the section where the judge was born, 
where he followed the vocation of a planter. The paternal great-grandfather 
w»s Joseph Coco, who came with General Lafayette to America and fought 
throughout the Revolutionary War. He was born in Spain of pure Iberian 
blood. Joseph Coco, after the Revolutionary War, came to Avoyelles parish and 
married Miss Juneau, whose parents had loca'ed there some time previously. 
Judge Coco's mother, HeIoi.se Sheldon, was a native of Fointe Coupee parish, 
where her father was a large sugar planter. His mother died about 1870. 

Mr. Coco, on July 10, 1877, wa's married to Miss Catherine Malone, daughter 
of John P. Malone, a great land owner in Arkansas, devoted to agricultural 
interests. The wife is of Irish parentage, as both her parents came from Ire- 
land to America, but married after reaching our shores. Three children grace 
the union of Mr. and Mrs. Coco, Walter, an attorney in Seattle, Washington; 
Vernon, graduate of Jefferson College and of the Catholic University of Amer- 
ica, Washington, D. C, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, who practiced 
law at Marksville with his father and who is now Assistant Attorney General 
for the State of Louisiana, being appointed to that position by his father; and 
Numa, a farmer in Avoyelles parish. 

Mr. Coco attended the public schools of Avoyelles until his fifteenth year, 
v;hen he entered the State University for one year, and then attended and 
graduated from St. Vincent's College, Missouri, with the A. B. degree in the 
class of 1877. During the following two years he was a teacher in the public 
schools of Marksville, La., studying law at night and when he could secure a 
few v&cant minutes. Following the close of his second year as a teacher he 
entered Tulane University, and graduated in the Law Department of that 
institution in the class of 1881. Immediately he hung out his shingle at 
Marksville, and has since been in legal practice there. In 1888 he was elected 
district judge of the district comprising Avoyelles, Rapides and Grant parishes, 
and remained an incumbent of that office until 1896. In 1912 he made the race 



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for attorney general and was defeated by Ruf fin G. Pleasant, but he ran again 
in 1916 and was elected by a handsome vote. 

Judge Coco is a Catholic, a member of the Knights of Columbus, and of the 
Woodmen of the World. This gentleman, who contains a mixture of Spanish, 
French and Irish blood in his veins, is an inheritor of the best qualities of all 
of these ^ ariant people, and is a brilliant lawyer. 




HON. HARRY D. WILSON, 

Commissioner Agriculture and Immigration. 

Harry D. Wilson, the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Lou- 
isiana, is but forty-six years of age. He began life's work dt eleven in a 
country store where he remained until seventeen, going to New Orleans lo 
work in a grocery store. At nineteen he began working for the Express and 
Railroad Company, where he remained for a number of years. After resigning 
from the Express and Railroad Company, he began farming in Tangipahoa 
Parish. Mr. Wilson became especially interested in dairying and truck grow- 
ing. He served in the City Council of Amite City, and the Tangipahoa Parish 
School Board. Mr. Wilson's merits had already become recognized by his 
fellow citizens, who sent him to the State Legislature for several terms to rep- 
resent Tangipahoa Parish. He ran for Commissioner of Agriculture in the 
recent election and won that office by a comfortable majority. 



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HON. FREDERIC JUMEL GRACE, 
Register of the State Land Office. 

Mr. Grace was born in Plaqueminc, Iberville Parish, Louioiana, May 9, 1870. 
He is a member of one of the most influential families of that place. Ki.s 
father wa."; born in the State of New York and came with his parents when 
a boy to Louisiana. Mr. Grace was educated at private schools at Plaque- 
mine and at St. Charles College, which institution conferred on him in V.)L2 
the degree of LL. D. For seven years after completing his education he wcs 
engaged in the sugar-planting business, then for ten years he was a travel- 
ing salesman for mill supplies. In 1908 he received the important nomina- 
tion by the Democratic Party of register of tiie State Land Office and at ihe 
following election he received a handsome majority. As a testimonial to his 
services to his State he was elected in 1912 for a term of four years more 
and at the end of that term he was very graciously given the office for I'our 
years more. He is now serving his third term as register of the Land Office. 
Since he lias been register he has radically improved the business and methods 
of this important office. When, on account of the reduced acreage of the 
United States public land in Louisiana, the several United State land offices 
were consolidated, a determined movement was put forth by several of '.l;e 
large cities for the location of the office in their midst, but Mr. Grace took 
the position that since all the maps, drawing-;, etc., of the State Land 0ffi>'0 
were located in Baton Rouge it would be much better to have the office at 
that p'ace. It was largely due to his efforts that the office was so locate 1. 
He has been instrumental in having several thousand acres of valuable lantl 
in Louisiana held by the Federal goverament given to the State and the peo- 
ple show their appreciation by electing him every time he asks for a place. 

In 1898 he married Miss May Dardenne, of Iberville Parish, whose father 
was for several years clerk of Court there. Four children now grace their 
union. Mr. Grace is a member of several fraternal organizations and is < x- 
tremely popular with his fellow-men. 



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HON. MARTIN BEHRMAN, Mayor of the City of New Orleans. 

The Hon. Martin Behrman was born in New York on October 14, 1864. His 
father was Henry Behrman, a man of attainments and political importance in 



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the first city in the land. His father brought him to New Orleans while he 
was yet a boy and he received a common school education in the public schools 
of his adopted city. He was naturally bright and possessed the characteristic 
which, on being developed as they are to-day, have won him friends throughout 
the State of Louisiana and the nation. 

In 1887 he married Miss Julia Collins of New Orleans, a young lady well 
fitted to be the life partner of such a gifted man and who has helped him in his 
various struggles. He is a member of the Young Men's Gymnastic Club of 
New Orleans and of the Choctaw Club, an organization of young Democrats 
for the advancement of political morals. 

Mr. Behrman served for many years as a member of the School Board of New 
Orleans and helped to place the schools of the Crescent City on the present 
high plain of excellence. The schools of New Orleans, thanks to the efforts of 
Mr. Behrman as School Board Member and as Mayor, rank with the best in -he 
United States. He has always been a friend of education and in his various 
otTices, he has striven for the cause of education. 

He held the position of Assessor of Orleans parish for a long number of 
years and brought about a more just assessment. Previous to this time, i:he 
men of his home city who owned a great deal of property and who had political 
influence escaped with a slight taxation while the little man without political 
influence was made to bear the burden. Not so with Mr. Behrman, and he 
assessed the "big" man along with the "little" man which, of course, raised a 
lot of opposition to him by the professional politician, but the people of New 
Orleans who appreciated a square deal stood right at his elbow and placed him 
in the State Auditor's office. Here he served from 1904 to 190.5, when the peo- 
ple of New Orleans called him from his office in the State House to become che 
Mayor of New Orleans. This position he has held ever since. 

Since being Mayor he has brought about the pavement of many miies of 
streets in his city, has had drainage systems installed where they had possibly 
never been thought of before, but where they were badly needed to carry away 
the filth that was causing sickness and death. He has been instrumental in 
having reduced light and gas rates granted to the people of New Orleans. 

This great man is and has been of great service to the State of Louisiana 
and has helped to bring her to her present stage of ailvancement. He is recog- 
nized by the people of the State as being a friend to the country parishes as 
well as to the City of New Orleans and there is no city man to-day in this 
State who is more admired than this gentleman. He was elected in 1916 as 
one of the four delegates at large from the State of Louisiana to the National 
Democratic Convention which meets at St. Louis, Mo. No other man commands 
the influence in his city as does the Mayor and he has many times been asked io 
enter the race for Congress, for the United States Senate and for Governor of 
the State, but he has, up to this time, consistently refused to be even considered 
and has served as Mayor of the city against his will. He is a man of quiet 
tastes and retiring disposition and cares nothing for the public honors that the 
people of the State are so eager to give him. 



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HON. ROBERT EWING, National Democratic Committeeman from Louisiana. 

One of the national figui-es in New Orleans is the Hon. Robert Ewing, Editor 
an<t Publisher of the Daily States in New Orleans and owner of the Shreveport 



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Times in Shreveport. He also enjoys the distinction of being the National 
Committeeman from Louisiana representing the Democratic party. Ho was 
unanimously re-elected to this important post in 1916. Also he was named as 
one of the four delegates from the State at large to attend the Democratic Na- 
tional Convention in St. Louis in June, 1910. 

At a recent meeting of the National Committee to arrange for the June 
convention of the Democratic party to nominate a presidential candidate, Mr. 
Ewing was chosen as chairman of the impoitant press committee — a .-ignal 
honor to Louisiana and the entire South. 

Mr. Ewing enjoys the friendship of President Wilson, whom he enthusiasti- 
cally supported four years ago and has often called on the President in Wash- 
, ington. When Mr. Wilson visited Pass Christian, Miss., two years ago, Mr. 
Kwing was an honored guest of the President's. He is an active participant Wi 
national caucuses involving great responsibilities. 

For many years after coming to the Crescent City fioni Moliilc, Aln.. Mr. 
Ewing was connected with the Daily States as an employee, but by dint ivf 
persei'vcrance and a show of good sense and i;iie ability as a manager, he 
V orked his way up to the top and finally puahased a contiolling interest n 
the States. It is known as the only Democratic paper in New Orleans. It has 
a wide circulation and is read throughout the United States, being noted ;"or 
its accuracy, newness of news, and sensible editorials. Some years ago he ex- 
tended his journalistic influence by purchasing the Shreveport Times which is a 
paper of extended circulation and great influence in Louisiana. 

Mr. Ewing lives in the Tenth Ward of New Orleans and has gotten the iiame 
of the "IjOss" of the Tenth Ward because the men whom he has favored have 
always been elected. Th's is due io llie painstaking cr.rc with which he chooses 
the man he will support I'ather than to any manipulation of his part. One of 
the cardinal principles of h's life has been nfver to make promises which he 
could not carry out. He is .'cry i'rank and outspoken. 

The influence of Colonel Ewing and of his two papers have always been for 
the economic, social and political betterment of Louisiana and the South. He 
has assisted in making Louisiana one of the greatest ports in the South, the 
second greatest in the United States, and has been instrumental in having 
brought to Louisiana a great many of the enterprises which now represents 
thousands and millions of dollars. 

His family consists of two sons and one daughter, and one of his sons is 
working on the Shreveport Times. 



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ETHELRED MACAULAY STAFFORD, 
Senator, Sixth Senatorial District. 



— Page Forty-two 



Senator Stafford is a native son of Louisiana, having been born in the City 
of New Orleans on July 13, 1875. He is the son of Ethelred R. and Mary 
(Burke) Stafford. His father was brought to New Orleans when an infant 
from South Carolina from ancestors who took a prominent part in the Revolu- 
tionary wai . Mr. Stafford's father was a contractor and died in New Orleans 
at the age of 59 years. His mother died on the same day as his father, an in- 
cident in keeping with the wishes of his parents for they had been a devoted 
couple and had often expressed the wish that they might die on the same day. 
Mr. Stafford's grandfather, Ethelred Stafford was wounded while taking part 
in the Battle of New Orleans. Senator Stafford married Miss Eugenia A. 
Tebault, daughter of W. G. Tebault of New Orleans, in 1900. Mrs. Stafford is 
a leader in the social and religious life of i,he Crescent City. 

Mr. Stafford was educated in the public schools of New Orleans and was 
a student of Tulane University in the Law Department, but failing health com- 
pelled him to leave the University without gaduating, but in 1898 he took an 
examination before the Supreme Court and was admitted to practice law. 

Mr. Stafford is a veteran of the Spanish- American war, having been quar- 
ter-master of the Washington Artillery, Battery "B," preferring to serve in that 
capacity than to that of first lieutenant in a Mississippi regiment, which was 
recruited in Louisiana, to which he had been elected. When the treaty of peace 
was signed between the United States and Spain he received an honorable dis- 
charge from military service ami immediately entered upon the practice of his 
chosen profession. He has built up a large and lucrative practice from among 
the people of New Orleans and there is no lawyer before the bar of i,hat city 
who is more trusted or better liked than Senator E. M. Stafford. 

He has always, since early youth, taken an active part in politics as a Dem- 
ocrat. In 1898 he was elected to the State Senate where he served one term 
with credit to himself and constituents. In 1899 he was fire commissioner from 
the fourth district and in this office he served capably and acceptably for three 
years. In 1900 he won distinction for the manner in which he, as captain of 
company "K" First Louisiana Regiment, restored peace and order in the region 
of the riotous strikers. In 1912 he was again elected to the Senate and again 
elected in 1916. In this legislative body he has won distinction as an able legis- 
lator. Among the many bills he introduced and which became laws, perhaps 
the most noted is the present employers' liability laws which in effect changed 
the jurisprudence in the matter of assuming risks on the part of the employee 
and has been a blessing to all parties concerned. In this he has been proven 
to be a friend of both capital and labor, trying to do the best possible to recon- 
cile their interest and bring about harmony and co-operation. The same bill, 
in many respects came up for passage for nearly twenty years and was always 
defeated. This goes to show something of his ability as a parliamentarian and 
as a legislator. 



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JULIUS J. DRAWE, 
Senator, Fifth Senatorial District. 

Born in Chicago, Illinois, but was brought to New Orleans when a boy, 
and educated in the public schools of New Orleans, Mr. Drawe is a Louis- 
ianian to the core of his heart. After graduating from the public schools of 
his adopted city, he entered Yonkers College, at Yonkers, New York. He 
married twice, his first wife was Miss Catharine Shitnnon, whom he mar- 
ried in 1892, and his second was Miss Edith Daniel, daughter of Hirani 
Daniel, whom he married in 1910. 

Mr. Drawe began life as a merchant, but is now engaged in handling cot- 
ton seed products, repi-esenting exporters of these products. For several 
years he was official inspector of cotton seed products for the New Orleans 
Board of Trade. 

The Senator has traveled a great deal and is fai.niliar with the conditions 
existing in sister States, and thus is well qualified to give the State of 
Louisiana the things that will do her good. 

Mr. Drawe is a Mason, member of Union Lodge No. 172 F. & A. M. Royal 
Arch , Concord Chapter No. 2, Chalimar Grotto No. .59 and a member of the 
Masonic Club of New Orleans. 



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NORRIS C. WILLIAMSON, 
Senator, Twenty-Eighth Senatorial District. 

Senator Williamson, from the Twenty-eighth Senatorial District, was born 
at Williamsburg, Miss., on\July .'U, 1H74, and moved to Milliken, La., on .Jul,; 
4, 1898. He was educated in the public and private schools of Mississippi 
and ihen entered the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, grad- 
uating therefrom four years later. In college Mr. Williamson distinguished 
himself, graduating with both literary and military honors. 

Immediately after graduation Mr. Willianison entered into business as .1 
levee contractor, and farming when time permitted, at which he has more 
than been successful. He is now engaged in farming and levee-building in his 
home State. 

Mr. Williamson was a member of the Police Jury for the past eight yearo, 
and during this time served as president of this honorable body. Always tak- 
ing an active interest in improving the highways of his native State and lend- 
ing his interest to the furthering of road-building, miles and miles of good 
roads now tempt the homeseeker in his section. He is a close student of 
the needs of his fellow Louisianians and so well-equipped educationally and 
with his broad experience he is in a position to render great service to the 
farmers of this State. 



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FRANK L. GUTHRIE, 

Senator, Twenty-Ninth Senatorial Dist. 

Virginia, the home of great men and the Mother of Presidents, has given 
to Louisiana another man whom she is proud to honor, in the person of 
Senator Frank L. Guthrie, who was born at Staunton, Virginia, in 1861, and 
moved to Louisiana December of 1884. He was married to Miss Carrie 
Paxton Tipping, daughter of James Tipping, in 1889, of Staunton, Virginia, 
and has one daughter, Natalia, now attending Bethany College. 

Senator Guthrie was educated in the public and private schools of Vir- 
ginia, Scottsville High School in Kentucky, and Dunnsmoore Business Col- 
lege, where he led his classes and won the admiration of the faculties by 
his brilliant intellect. 

He began life as a farmer, and now owns the Canton Plantation, Tensas 
Parish, which is one of the most valuable of its kind in the State. It has 
all modern improvements that a country home should have, including elec- 
tric lights, water systems, etc. On the farm he has the best machinery of the 
Northern factories and one of the largest herds of short horn cattle in the State. 
He built the first silo and dipping vat in that section of the State, and has 
always been a leader for the social, educational and financial improvement of 
his section of the State. 



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He is president of the Bank of Newellton, and of the Newellton Elevator 
Company, both of which are friends of the man of ordinary means, and 
have been a great help in the improvement of Tensas and surrounding par- 
ishes. He served as police jury member from the First Ward of Tensas 
Parish, and resigned when appointed by Governor Hall as a member of the 
Fifth Louisiana Levee Board. 

He is a man of great influence in his section of the State, and favorably 
known throughout Louisiana. He is a man of splendid attainments, pro- 
found learning, capacity for friendship, and is one of the leading members 
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S J. HARPER, 
Senator, Twenty-Seventh Senatorial District. 

"Having learned what it is to struggle for an existence, it is for such per- 
sons who are struggling as I had to do that I expect to devote a large share 
of my future life," said Senator S. J. Harper, Twenty-seventh Senatorial Dis- 
trict, from Winnfield, La. He was born Oct. 14, 1861,, at Braxton, Miss., and 
came to Louisiana in the year 1867 with his parents and settled in Winn 
Parish, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Clarina J. Sh'j- 
maker, daughter of Dr. J. N. Shumaker; she is a woman well qualified tempera- 



-Page Forty-seven 



mentally and intellectually to be the companion of the man who uttered the 
first words in this biographical sketch. 

"I was reared on a farm during Reconstruction days," said Mr. Harper, 
"and there were no schools worth mentioning, but I attended what there were 
of them. I have obtained most of what education I have by private study since 
reaching my majority." He first entered the struggle for existence as a 
farmer and then taught school for a few years, finally entering the mercan- 
tile business which he runs in connection with his farming. 

He has been a member of the Board of Aldermen of Winnfield and is now 
serving his second term as a senator from the Twenty-seventh Senatorial 
District. Mr. Harper is a man of very high moral tone, a gentleman in every 
respect, and a firm friend to those young men who are struggling to bettor 
their social, economic and educational opportunities. Such men are the salt 
of the earth, and "if the salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted?" 




J. E. DOUSSAN, 

Ninth Senatorial District. 

Senator Doussan was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 12, 
1869, and has lived at Lutcher, his present address, since 1889. He was mar- 
ried to Miss Estelle DuBos on December 12, 1894. Miss Estelle is the daugh- 



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ter of Mr. and Mrs. DuBos. Ho was educated in Spring Hill College, Mo- 
bile, Alabama, graduating therefrom in ISSfi, with the A. B. degree and in 
1891 with the M. A. degree. 

After graduating from Tulane medical department in 1891, he entered on 
life's profession at which he is now actively engaged. He has served as 
Quarantine physician from 1895 to 1900. A member of St. James Parish 
Board of Health, from 1902 to 190.3; Representative from 1908 to 1912; 
member of the School Board of St. James Parish from 1912 to 1913; was 
elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1913, and the proposed Conven- 
tion of 1915, and to the Senate in 191(;. He is the health officer of Lutcher, 
chairman of Lutcher Democratic Executive Committee and other local posi- 
tions of importance. 

Fraternally Mr. Dousson is a Mason, Red Man and a member of the Mac- 
cabees. 




SKNATOR W. T. CHRISTY, 
Seventh Distict. 

Mr. Christy has been a lifelong res- 
ident of Algiers, having been born in 
New Orleans on Sept. 14, 1860. He 
attended the local public schools and 
was also a student in the New Or- 
leans High School. 

At the age of 16 he entered the em- 
ploy of the Morgan's Louisiana and 
Texas Railroad and Steamship Com- 
pany as a painter and in 1881 entered 
the mechanical department of the 



same company under Master Mechan- 
ic N. Til'.on. He was later placed on 
a locomotive as a fireman and served 
a? such until 1883 and was promoted 
lo locomotive engineer, and is still 
lilliiig (hat position in the passenger 
service. 

He is a member of the Brother- 
hood of Locomotive Engineers, and is 
now serving as vice chairman of the 
general committee of adjustments. 
Southern Pacific Company. 

Also he is a me ber of Orange 
Camp No. 8, Woodmen of the, World, 
ar.d a member of New Orleans Lodge 
No. 30, B. P. O. E.Iks. He is always 
ready to lend his aid to any cause 
that will be bcneliciul to his city and 
Slate. 

As a member of the Slate Senate 
representing the Seventh Senatorial 
District he was chairman of the com- 
mittee on capital and labor, and gave 
his hearty supporl to all measures in 
behalf of labor. 

Mr. Christy was appoinetd by Gov- 
ernor Hall as a member of the Em- 
ployers' Liability Commission to 
draft the workmen's compensation 
and liability act, which became a law 
Jan. 1, 1915. He is now serving his 
second term in the Senate represent- 
ir.g the Seventh District. 



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SENATOR GEORGE THOELE. 
Orleans Parish 

Geoi-ge Thoele, Senator from New Orleans, is in all respects a representative 
of the people, in that he is one of the common people. Mr. Hhoele is a' very 
young man to be a Senator, having been born on September 7, 1883, in the 
city of New Orleans. He attended the public schools, Dyers' University and 
Spencer's Business College, and upon graduation from the latter institution, se- 
cured a position as bookkeeper in one of the largest mercantile houses of his 
home city. Mr. Thoele did not go to sleep on his bookkeeping position, but had 
his eyes open for every opening that he could see in commercial lines, and it 
was not long before he had selected his work and began in the street paving- 
business, representing Warren Bros. Co., just about the time that New Or- 
leans had decided to make immense improvements. In this work he has been 
a success, through the close attention he pays to his business. 

He is not only a Senator from New Orleans, but is also a member of ihe 
State Central Committee, representing the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, and 
is the Democratic leader in his ward. Mr. Thoele is a member of the B. P. O. 
E., No. 30, and was married in 1908 to Miss M. E. Veziem, daughter of Mr. 
John P. Veziem, of Algiers. The present address of Mr. Thoele is 4213 Royal 
street, New Orleans, La., and the latch is on the outside to his friends. 



—Page Fifty 




G. J. LABARRE, 
Senator of the Tenth Senatorial District. 

One of the strongest and most independent figures in the Senate of Louis- 
iana, in many years, is the staunch Progressive, Mr. G. J. Labarre, Sena- 
tor from the Tenth Senatorial District. When his constituents, members 
of the newly born party to which he belonged, were in search of a man of 



—Page Fifty-ont 



superior qualifications and capabilities to represent their senatorial district; 
what other natural sequence could there be, but the singling out and the 
selection of this prominent and distinguished citizen ? 

Endowed with a striking personality, he brings into full force his mag- 
netic powers whenever an important measure concerning his people is an 
issue in the Senate, and his efforts are usually successful. 

Mr. Labarre's parents on his father's side trace their lineage back over 800 
years, when Sir Guilliam de Labarre was sovereign bailif of Flanders, from 
then the Magistrate to France for several hundred years. Nelson and Val- 
com Labarre came from France and established in New Orleans and Gretna. 
Pierre Francois de Labarre was the son of Nelson Labarre. The old maps of 
New Orleans show many large plantations belonging to them. Mr. Labarre's 
grandfather was of German blood, coming directly from Germany, and land- 
ing in Virginia, where he bought a horse and rode across the United States 
to New Orleans. His name was Gustavus Adolphus Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt 
V as an attorney of wonderful skill, pleading, speaking, and writing before the 
courts in seven different languages. Senator Labarre's full name is Gustavus 
Joseph de Labarre. 

Born March 18, 1864, in the Parish of Assumption, of a lineage whose 
surname is synonomous with the progress of that section, and which is t« 
be found designating several large plantations, a steamboat landing, a 
quiet village, a railroad depot, and the United States post office, he ac- 
quired the rudiments of an education from such schools and institutions as 
the community afforded at the time of his youth. A part of his education 
was received under the direction of a Mrs. Landry, a prominent educator of 
East Baton Rouge. 

Being of a practical turn of mind, he easily understood situations pre- 
senting themselves and never failed to grasp an opportunity to better his 
position- in life. He is what may be readily termed a self-instructed and 
accomplished man, being heralded throughout Assumption Parish as the 
"cotton and lumber" king. As an experienced lumberman, Mr. Labarre is 
the oldest in the State, and has the best equipped logging outfit in the State. 
His hand can be identified in all the leading enterprises of his section, and 
his title is, therefore, justly earned. 

While Mr. Labarre is an earnest and industrious creator of large business, 
he finds time for recreation and amusement, being regarded as one of the 
best all round sportsmen in Louisiana. He possesses a fine steam launch, in 
which he finds much enjoyment in entertaining his hosts of friends, on 
hunting and fishing trips, upon the numerous streams throughout the State. 
Far and wide, his reputation as a wing shot is known. Several years ago 
in company with Mr. Dupont, of the celebrated Dupont family of powder 
fame, he made the remarkable discovery of a gigantic sea monster, washed 
ashore on an uninhabited marsh island of Southern Louisiana. The weight 
of this great fish was estimated by experts at 293 tons. While the class to 
which it belonged has never been identified, it is the supposition that it was 
a specimen of abnormal whale. The skeleton of this wonderful creature will 
be mounted by Mr. Labarre and placed on exhibition. 



— Page Fifty-two 



Political Career. 

In politics, Mr. Labarre has always been independent and as such led an 
active fight against the different administrations during the past many 
years. Believing that his State needed two political parties, he was instru- 
mental in the creation of the Progressive party of Louisiana. Before af- 
filiating with the Progressive party, he was State committeeman for the 
Lily White faction of the Republican party. When the Republicans went 
down in defeat, he helped to elect J. Y. Sanders to the Governor's office. 
Thinking that his sugar interests could best be subserved by the Progres- 
sive party, he assisted in the preliminary organization when the State head- 
quarters were first located in New Orleans. In 1912, he was a delegate to 
the National Progressive Convention at Chicago, and there introduced the 
resolution in the committee on Credentials, providing that the credentials 
bearing the name of a colored man south of Mason's and Dixon's line shall 
be turned down. His resolution carried unanimously. 

Single handed and alone, Mr. Labarre led the Progressive fight for many 
years, making it a campaign of education, and was elected from his district 
without opposition. 

As an individual Mr. Labarre has a pleasing disposition, and is just the 
sort of man to make you feel glad to know that he is your friend. Sincere 
in his every action, indomitable in will, he has forced his way manfully from 
the bottom of the ladder until today he stands on the topmost rung of suc- 
cess. If consistent hard work, straightforwardness, a clear insight into 
things political mean anything, by way of achievement, there is no reason 
why he should not be one of the gotrmody Louisianians in a very few years 
hence. Even now from the lowlands of his native heath his constituents 
have him uppermost in mind, waiting expectantly when his genius shall ex- 
ert itself, and by the aid of which he shall create some measure in the 1916 
Legislature which will assist them onto the road of boundless prosperity. 

Mr. Labarre was happily married to a most charming young lady, Miss 
Marguerite Ann Geautreaux of Assumption. Five children, three sons and 
two daughters, is the result of the marriage. 



— Page Fifty-three 




SENATOR J. R. DOMENGEAUX. Thirteenth Senatorial District. 

Republicanism is not dead in Louisiana, as is witnessed by the appearance 
of Hon. J. R. Domengeaux, Thirteenth Senatorial District, at the State CapitoT, 
bearing the only Republican commission in the State Senate. Mr. Domengeaux 
was born at Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, on September 21, 1871, and moved to 
Lafayette in 1890, where he has since lived. He is engaged in pharmacy, 
which is his business at the present time. He was married to Miss Martha 
Mouton, daughter of Judge Eraste Mouton, who was a nephew of General 
Mouton, who was Governor of Louisiana from 1843 to 1846. 

Senator Domengeaux was educated in the public schools of his parish, and 
served throughout the Spanish-American war as first sergeant. Company "I" 
of Hood's Infantry, where he distinguished himself with bravery. He is the 
only Republican that has been a member of the Senate for twenty years. 
Changes in administration did not bother this gentleman, for he was postmas- 
ter at Lafayette for fourteen years, serving under Presidents Roosevelt, Taft 
and Wilson, resigning only a few days before he was sworn in as a member 
of the Senate. This proves that it is not so much a man's politics that counts, 
but what the man himself is. He was elected, had to be, by a Democratic con- 
stituency, and elected to serve a Democratic State. Serving as postmaster in 
a large town under a Democratic President, and resigning on hig own free 



-Page Fifty-four 



will, again attests the fact that his people who know him had confidence 
enough in him to elect him to the Senate to serve their needs. 

Mr. Domengeaux is a member of the B. P. O. E., and of the Woodmen of 
the World, and is recognized by his fraternities as being one of the greatest 
men in the Louisiana organizations of their orders. 

The people of Lafayette, the home of Lieutenant-Governor Mouton, show 
that they have arrived at that stage of political development where they i-^eal- 
ize and appreciate true worth no matter under what cloak it be found. This is 
the greatest realization that needs to come before the people of Louisiana 
today. 




SENATOR LEON S. HAAS, 

Fourteenth Senatorial District. 

Leon S. Haas, representing the Fourteenth Senatorial District in the State 
Senate, is the youngest son of Captain Samuel Haas and Martha Ann Cole of 
Bayou Chicot, La., where he was born on May 7. 1878. He attended the public 
schools at Bayou Chicot, and then went to Chamberlain Hunt Academy from 
which he graduated. He attended the law school at the University of Virginia, 
graduating from that institution with the degree of L.L.B. He was admitted 
to the bar of the State of Louisiana in 1902. Mr. Haas has been practicing law 
in Opelousas since his admission to the bar. 



— Page Fifty-five 




R. A. FRASER, 

Senator, Thirty-First Senatorial District. 

Senator Fraser was born at Mansfield, La., on Feb. 3, 1879, and moved to 
Many, La., on Jan. 1, 1909, where he is engaged in the practice of law. He 
was married to Miss Lulu Peters on May 25, 1910,. It is altogether fitting 
and proper that a large per cent of our senators should be lawyers, trained 
in the technique of law and alive to the needs and possibilities of laws for this 
great State. 

The subject of this sketch was educated in the Mansfield High School and 
then entered Tulane University Law School, where he graduated and imme- 
diately entered upon the practice of his chosen vocation. For the past six 
years his attention has been devoted almost exclusively to the practice of 
civil law, in which hir, ideals for clean, high standards of practice and ethics 
of the profession avc appreciated by his fellow-men at the bars of Northwest 
Louisiana. 

Mr. Fraser is serving his maiden term in the State Senate, but already 

numbers his friends among the leaders of this State. A man clean morall\r 

and physically, with the social standing that he has, and capacity for friend- 

-ship and service, cannot fail, even though hi tried, to be called to the highest 

places in the service of the State. 



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ROBERT L. RIVARDE, Senator, Eighth Senatorial District. 

Beginning life as an office boy at 11 years of age for D. H. Holmes & Co., 
of New Orleans, and steadily rising through the positions of office boy in a 
law office, deputy clerk of court for the Parish of Jefferson, court stenogra- 
pher for the Twenty-eighth Judicial District, to senator from the Eighth Sen- 
atorial Districts part of the accomplishments of Senator L. Robert Rivarde, 
Hahnville, La. The senator was born in New Orleans on Oct. 7, 1878, and 
was married to Miss Marrero, daughter of Hon. S. A. Marrero, of Jefferson 
was married to Miss Marrero, daughter of Hon. L. A. Marrero, of Jefferson 
Parish, on Oct. 17, 1905. 

Mr. Rivarde attended the parochial and public schools of New Orleans spo- 
radically when time would permit him to go, but received the most of hi.i 
early education at Sophie B. Wright Night School. The grim determination 
that will nerve a boy of 11 years of age and thereabouts to labor all day in an 
office or store and then attend school at night is not second, but equal, to the 
determination displayed by Abraham Lincoln in his struggle for an educati)n. 
It is the determination that brushes aside all obstacles from the path ot 
achievement and pushes right on to the goal. It is a pleasure that argues 
v/ell for the future of the State to find such men in her law-making body. 
Mr. Rivarde studied law at Tulane University and now practices his profes- 
sion at Hahnville. 



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SENATOR AULADIN VINCENT. Twelfth Senatorial District. 

Beginning life as a cowboy on a rancli, witli only nine months of schooling 
scattered over a long number of years, and today one of the leaders, one of 
the most honored and highly respected men in the public life of Louisiana, is 
the story of Senator Adladin Vincent, which reads like a romance. He was 
born in Calcasieu Parish, on December 26, 1849, and has lived in that par- 
ish all his life, with the exception of ten years spent in Texas. Mr. Vincent 
married Miss Azema Perry, daughter of William Perry, Vinton, Louisiana, on 
February 26, 1868. 

Senator Vincent was a member of the police jury of his native parish from 
1892 to 1896, and then was elected to fill the unexpired term in the Legisla- 
ture, caused by the resignation of A. R. Mitchell, who was appointed District 
Attorney by Governor Foster. He was re-elected in 1900, and sei-ved there an- 
other term. In 1904 he refused to even be considered for the place again, 
and for eight years devoted himself exclusively to his business, but the people 
of Calcasieu, knowing of his ability as a legislator, prevailed upon him to ac- 
cept the toga of Senator in 1912 and again in 1916. 

This grand old man has spent all his life in farming and stock raising, ex- 
cept for five and a half years that he spent in the employ of the Western 
Union as an operator, where he acquired his own education. By industry and 



-Page Fifty-eight 



good investments, he accumulated ten thousand acres of land, all of which was 
enclosed in a wire fence, upon which he pastured for many years over five 
thousand head of cattle. The Vinton oil fields are located on his property, out 
of which he never received a cent of money because of the villany of his busi- 
ness associates. He, so honest himself, did not think that men would rob a 
man in any such a way, but he has come to know that there are certain classes 
of men who hesitate at nothing to secure the almighty dollar. Mr. Vincent 
exclaimed the other day: "From the bottom of my heart I thank God that I 
am living and am hale and hearty, with a host of friends to respect me." A 
great sentiment from a great heart. 




A. 0. BOYER, 
Senator of the Fifteenth District. 



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SENATOR EDWARD O. POWERS. 
Eighteenth Senatorial District. 

Senator Edward O. Powers, M. D., was born in East Feliciana Parish, on 
October 23, 1865; son of John and Sarah Gordon Powers. The father was a 
native of Louisiana, and the mother of Mississippi, her family being related 
to General John B. Gordon, the famous Confederate General. 

Dr. Powers was married i,o Miss Ovilla Nettles, of Grangeville, St. Helena 
Parish, Louisiana, in 1896, and five children now grace their union. He was 
educated in the public and private schools of Amite City, Tangipahoa Parish, 
graduating from B. D. GuUett's Collegiate Institute of that place, and then en- 
tered the medical department of Tulane University, where he graduated in the 
class of 1896. On graduation he located in St. Helena Parish, and practiced 
there until 1907, when he removed to Baton Rouge, where he has continued 
in the general pract: r. He is a member of the State and National Medical 
Associations, and enjoy- an extensive reputation as a practitioner. 

Besides his medical [practice. Dr. Powers is largely interested in the plant- 
ing industry, at which he has n ade a complete success. 

During Governor Blanchard's administration he served as a representative 
from St. Helena Parish in the Louisiana State Legislature, and has served one 
term as Senator in the State Senate, and is now serving his second term. Few 



-Page Sixty 



medical men or men of any other profession enjoy the confidence of their con- 
stituents as does Dr. Powers. 

He is a Mason, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Baptist Church. He 
has always been a staunch Democrat. 




SENATOR JOHN C. DAVEY. 
First District. 

Members of the legal firm of Dinkelspiel, Hart & Davey, is a native of New 
Orleans. He is 37 years old, and is well known throughout the legal profession 
and is prominently identified with local and State politics. 

Mr. Davey was graduated from the Boys' High School and subsequently at- 
tended Tulane University, graduating from the law department. He has been 
practicing law since 1900, and has been a notary public since 1901. 

In 1912 Mr. Davey was elected to the State Senate, and was re-elected in 
1916 for a term of four years. 

Dr. Davey is a member of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club, the Young 
Men's Gymnastic Club, the New Orleans Press Club, the Choctaw Club, Lou- 
isiana Bar Association and the American Bar Association. 



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SENATOR ANDREW R. JOHNSON. 
Claiborne Parish. 

Andrew R. Johnson, Senator from Claiborne Parish, was born in Dadeville, 
Ala., on September 16, 1856, and moved to Scott Cunty, Mississippi, in Sep- 
tember, 1857, and in 1880 to Lafayette County, Arkansas, and to his present 
address at Homer, Louisiana, in 1906. He was married to Miss Julia C. Pitt- 
man, daughter of F. Pittman, of Lewisville, Arkansas, and to this union was 
born eleven children, namely: Bessie Allis, Sallie Ellen, Patrick, Pittman, Ben 
Marshall, Sunshine, Nash, Julia, A. R., Jr., Ekie and Pearl; eight of whom 
are living, and the following children are deceased: Bessie Allis, Sallie Ellen 
and Pittman. 

Mr. Johnson was educated in the public and subscription schools of Missis- 
sippi and Harperville Academy of the same State. After leaving school he 
became a teacher and later a clerk in a store, and is now engaged in farming 
and the banking business, having been elected president of the Homer State 
Bank since its establishment. 

He is a member of the Masons and Odd Fellows fraternal organizations. His 
fellow-citizens have honored him by electing him to various public offices. He 
was elected mayor of Homer, Louisiana, twice, without any opposition, and 



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had served previous to that time for two terms as Mayor of Buckner, Ark. He 
served as a delegate in the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1912, and 
was appointed special agent of the General Land Office from 1892 to 1896, 
and was for a number of years a member of the School Board of Claiborne 
Parish. He is now serving his first term in the Senate. 




SENATOR EDWARD M. ROBBERT. 

Third Senatorial District. 

Edward M. Robbert, lawyer and State Senator, was born in New Or- 
leans, La., August 29, 1881, and is a son of Henry M. Robbert, who was a 
merchant of that city. Mr. Robbert received his education in the public 
schools and in Soule's College of his native city. In 1906 he graduated in 
law from Tulane University, and immediately after took a post graduate 
course in law at the University of Michigan. Since 1907, he has actively 
practiced law in New Orleans. Since reaching his majority, Mr. Robbert 
has been an active and ardent Democrat, and as his party's candidate was 
honored in 191.3 by an election to the State Senate, from the Third Sena- 
torial District, and was re-elected in 1916. He was again honored in 1916 
by election as delegate to the State Democratic Convention. 



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SENATOR T. B. GILBERT, SR. 
Thirtieth Senatorial District. 

Unopposed candidate for the Senate from the Thirteenth Senatorial District, 
comprising the parishes of Catahoula, La Salle, Richland, and Franklin, and 
of course, taking his seat with the approval of almost every citizen of \.his 
district, possessed of a high sense of honor, great native ability, which has 
been developed during these many years. Senator T. B. Gilbert, Sr., is in a po- 
sition to render good service to the State of Louisiana. He was born at Sicily 
Island, Louisiana, on June 17, 1864, and after receiving his secondary educa- 
tion in the public schools of his native parish, he entered the Kentucky State 
University. 

Mr. Gilbert began his career in a mercantile establishment, and so success- 
ful was he and with wise investments, he is in the banking and planting busi- 
nesses, and is the president of the Franklin State Bank of Winnsboro, a pros- 
perous institution, organized several years ago. He is a Mason, a K. of P., and 
a Woodman. He has been a staunch Democrat all his life. 

Senator Gilbert was for a long number of years president of the Tensas 
Levee Board, and has been in politics for the last twenty years. He was a 
member of the Legislature from 1895 to 1900, and then in the Senate from 
1900 to 1904. He is an accomplished law maker. 



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SENATOR HOMER BAROUSSE. Fourteenth Senatorial District. 

Senator Barousse was born in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, on September 
25, 1850, and has resided at Church Point ever since. When nineteen years 
of age he married Miss Emelia Daigle, daughter of Theodule and Evilina 
Fux's Daigle of Church Point. He is a product of Acadia Parish, and is a 
descendant from a famous French family of that name. He possesses their 
characteristics of vivaciousness, suavity of manner, and high sense of honor. 



He was educated in the private schools of Washington, Louisiana, and be- 
gan life as a merchant. So successful has he been in his mercantile busi- 
ness that he has become a banker. He stands always for the agricultural 
and educational development of the State, and has been behind many bills 
which have become laws having these purposes in view. 

Mr. Barousse served as a member of the police jury of Acadia Parish for 
twelve years, and was chairman of the Acadia Parish Democratic Execu- 
tive Committee for eight years. In 1894 when Hon. D. B. Hayes resigned 
from the Senate to accept the postmastership of Crowley, under an ap- 
pointment from President Cleveland, Mr. Barousse was elected to take his 
place, and has been re-elected for each succeeding term. He has had wide 
and varied experience in the legislative body at the State Capitol, and is 
a leader in the Senate. He is a K. C. 



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SENATOR H. G. FIELDS. 
Twenty-fifth District. 

A distinguishing feature of modern business is the manner in which young 
men are coming to the front in the direction of affairs, both private and puT)- 
lic, and in this regard the State of Louisiana is not by any means an excep- 
tion to the rule. The Twenty-fifth Senatorial District claims the youngest 
member of the State Senate in the person of H. G. Fields, who although but 34 
years of age, has forged to the front as one of the leading lawyers of his home 
community, and the chosen representative from that district in the most im- 
])ortant legislative banch of our law-making body. 

Mr. Fields was born at Marksville, La., in the year 1882, but removed to 
Farmersville, Union Parish, nine years ago. His talents were early recog- 
nized in the new location, where he was selected as the city attorney and served 
as alderman, prior to his candidacy for State honors. When the memorable 
contest for delegates to the proposed Constitutional Convention was on, the 
people of Union Parish selected Mr. Fields as their delegate. Active in the 
councils of his party, he was chosen as a member of the congressional com- 
mittee from the Fifth District, and as a delegate to the Democratic State Con- 
vention. 

His candidacy for the State Senate met with general approval, and although 



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his boyhood was spent in Avoyelles Parish, among other surroundings, and he 
enjoyed the distinction of being almost the only citizen of Union Parish who 
was conversant with the French Language, the people of his adopted district 
showed their appreciation of his sterling worth by electing him to a seat in 
the Senate, where, with his years of maturity before him, untold opportuni- 
ties for usefulness remain for the future. 

Senator Fields was educated at Ruston, Tulane and L. S. U., still taking 
an active interest in the affairs of his college fraternity. He also is a mem- 
ber of the Elk's Lodge and the Woodmen, in which he takes an active part, 
both in lodge work and the social features of the orders, where his talents as 
a public speaker are always in demand. 




SENATOR CHARLES E. SCHWING. 
Sixteenth District. 

State Senator from the Sixteenth District of Louisiana, comprising the par- 
ishes of Iberville and West Baton Rouge. 

Not a few leaders of thought in the State of Louisiana have started on 
their public careers from the ranks of the newspaper profession, yet in each 
individual case, the training secured in that preparatory experience has been 



-Page Sixty-aeven 



most valuable in subsequent years. Especially is this true of a Legislator who 
woulcl properly represent his constituents. The close insight into human na- 
ture and the exchange of opinions, which come to him in that calling, are not 
likely to be forgotten, when the time for action arrives. If he has bee*n at 
all observant, he is pretty sure to know what the home community expects of 
him. 

Among the former newspaper "scribes," now members of both houses, few 
are better known than Charles E. Schwing, of Plaquemines, the new member 
from the Sixteenth State Senatorial District, who served as Representative 
from Iberville Parish from 1912 to 1916, and is therefore well equipped for 
his duties in the other house. 

Mr. Schwing was born at Plaquemine, La., December 29, 1879, attending the 
schools in his home community, later entering the Louisiana State University, 
of which he is an honored alumni of 1901. Determining to familiarize himself 
with the law, he became a member of the first law class of L. S. U., from 
which he became valedictorian of his class in 1908. He is thus twice an alum- 
ni of Louisiana State University. 

Mr. Schwing entered at once upon the practice of his legal profession, but 
continued as editor of the "Iberville South," at Plaquemine, which position he 
had held since 1901, and during his law researches at L. S. U. He was \.he 
recipient of marked appreciation in the journalistic field, where he served as 
president of the Louisiana Press Association, during the period from 1901 to 
1911, when he sold his newspaper interests. He was elected as a member of 
the National Editorial Association and served as executive committeeman from 
his native State from 1905 to 1907, thus being thrown into contact with leaders 
from all parts of the United States, and gaining for himself a fund of knowl- 
edge and experience from travel and observation throughout this country, Can- 
ada, Mexico and Cuba. 

In 1912 Senator Schwing went to Europe, visiting throughout England, 
Scotland, Wales, Frar.ce, Belgium and Holland, at the invitation of friends, 
covering the distances largely by motor car, by which means he was thrown 
into intimate touch with the lives of the people, both urban and rural. In 
1911 he gave up his editorial work, but has always retained a warm spot for 
the calling. Always possessirg a deep interest in the things which his town, 
parish and State was doing for the people, it was natural that he should early 
show an interest in politics. During the year following his retirement from 
journalism he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served 
continuously until his elevation to the Senate. He is still a young man, and 
in addition to his political activities, he has found time to cultivate many 
friendships in business and fraternal circles. He is a member of the Board of 
Directors of the Schwing Lumber and Shingle Company. In fraternal circles 
he belongs to Jerusalem Temple, Mystic Shrine, and his home Camp Woodmen 
of the World. 



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"^ " SENATOR DAVID M. PIPES. 

Seventeenth Senatorial District. 

Representing the industrial side of Louisiana life is Senator David N. Pipes, 
from the Seventeenth Senatorial District. He engaged in early life in vhe 
mercantile and planting businesses, and he has found them so attractive and 
remunerative that he remains at them to the present day. He married Miss 
Alice Yost, daughter of Major S. M. Yost, Staunton, Virginia, on October 2C, 
1897. 

He attended the C. H. Academy at Port Gibson, Mississippi, graduating in 
1897, and he then entered the Southwestern Presbyterian University of Clarks- 
ville, Tennessee, but was unable to finish his course on account of financal rea- 
sons. He is a Woodman and a Mason. 

Mr. Pipes was chief clerk in the State Treasurer's office from 1888 to 1892, 
and a member of the House from 1904 to 1908. 



— Page Sixty-nine 




SENATOR ALCIDE ROBINCHAUX. 
Tenth Senatorial District. 

Battling under the Progressive banner for the social, economic and politi- 
cal betterment of Louisiana, believing that the State needs a gen«!ral house 
cleaning to place her in the front ranks with her sister States, is Senator 
Robinchaux, Raceland, Louisiana. He was born on October 1, 1880, in the Par- 
ish of Lafourche, and has lived there all his life. On June 15, 1912, he was 
married to Miss Allie Moore, daughter of J. L Moore, of Bernice, Louisiana. 

Mr. Robinchaux was educated in the common schools of his native parish, 
and has been engaged in business as a planter and as a merchant practically 
all of his life, where he has made a great success. He was elected to the 
Legislatuie in 1912 and in 1916 he was elected to the Senate, 



— Page Sevniij 




SENAfOR ALBIN PROVOSIY, 
Fifteen Senatorial District. 

Senator Provosty was born in New 
Roads, La., on July 17, 1865, and has 
lived there all his life. He was mar- 
ried to Miss Adele Lodoux on Jan. 5, 
1891. He is one of the oldest Demo- 
crats found in the legislative halls of 
Louisiana and a man who has passed 
through, in his younger days, some 
very dark times for the Democracy of 
this State. At these times, as since, 
he has been found where honor calls 
and where the rights of the people 
were being infringed. It is a sure 
sign that the State is to go on down 
the future with the best guidance that 
humans can give a State when men of 
the learning and experience that Al- 
bin Provosty has are found taking an 
active interest in politics. 

The senator was educated in the 
public schools of his native parish, 
Pointe Coupee, and afterwards at- 
tended the Louisiana State University 
and later graduated in law at Tulane 
University. Immediately upon grad- 
uation he entered the field as an at- 
torney at law, where he has made a 
complete success and still continues to 
study and work at his profession. 

Mr. Provosty was district attorney 
of his parish for eight years, where he 
gave universal satisfaction to the law- 



abiding class of people and where he 
struck terror to the evil-doer, and pos- 
sibly this fact finds connection with 
that other fact that Pointe Coupee 
ranks near the bottom in number of 
crimes committed, though it is one of 
our most thickly populated communi- 
ties. He has been a member of the 
State Senate for the past two sessions, 
where he has shown himself to be a 
master of parliairientary tactics and 
u friend of the people. 




SENATOR BERTRAND WEIL, 
Twentieth Senatorial District. 

Born in Alexandria, La., Senator 
IJertrand Weil has lived there all of 
his life. He was born Nov. 26, 1859, 
r.nd is unmarried. Mr. Weil began 
life as a clerk, but by industry and 
frugality he has accumulated a mer- 
cantile and planting industry to which 
he deifotes his attention. He is also 
president of the Rapides Bank of Al- 
exandria. He was educated in the pri- 
vate schools of Alexandria and later 
attended Soule's Business College in 
New Orleans, from which he grad- 
i!ated. Mr. Weil was president of the 
Police Jury of Rapides Parish for 
eight years. He was a senator under 
Governors Sanders and Hall and now 
under this administration. 



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SENATOR JOHN DYMOND, SR., 
Fourth Senatorial District. 

Senator John Dymond was born in 
the State of Ohio on May 3, 1836, and 
came to Louisiana at the close of the 
civil war and embarked in business 
as a wholesale sugar dealer and im- 
porter of coffee. He is of English 
parentage, his ancestors first settling 
in Canada, but John Dymond was 
reared in Zanesville, Ohio, where he 
was taken at 3 years of age by his 
parents, and was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of that town, later grad- 
uating from Bartlett's College, Cin- 
cinnati. He was an earnest student and 
always stood near the head of his 

•sassBp 
He married Miss Nancy Elizabeth 
Cassidy, of Zanesville, Ohio, in 1862, 
and six children have been born to 
them, of whom three sons and two 
daughters are now living. 

After finishing college he began life 
as a clerk in his father's mercantile es- 
tablishments and in 1858 he engaged 
ir. the cotton-manufacturing business 
under the name of White & Dymond. 
In 1860 he became a traveling sales- 
man, traveling over all the middle At- 
lantic and Central States. In 1862, 
when New Orleans came into the pos- 
session of the Federal government, an 
attempt was made to revive the sugar 



induslry. Mr. Dymond was in Cuba, 
where he was recupei'ating, and came 
to New Orleans and started a whole- 
sale exporting and importing house 
aealing in sugar, molasses and coffee, 
in which they did a tremendous busi- 
ness. The sugar-planting industry of 
ante-bellum days offered many attrac- 
tions, with the final result that the 
firm of Dymond & Lally bought in the 
Belair and Fairview plantations on the 
Lower Coast when they were offered 
for debts contracted before the open- 
ing of the civil war and which had not 
been paid. This was in 1868, and Mr. 
Dymond's active career as a sugar 
p'an'er began. The managing of a 
huge plantation required and still re- 
ciuires a vast amount of time, so he 
!.'.Tadually retired from his other busi- 
ness and devoted himself exclusively 
to the managerial side of his business 
as a planter. 

He was the founder of the Louisi- 
ana Sugar Planters' Association, 
which revolutionized the sugar indus- 
try in Louisiana and in fact of the en- 
tire world. Being of an inventive turn 
of mind he invented a sulphur ma- 
chine which is now in use wherever 
sugar is made, the shelf or cascade 
machine. He aided in the develop- 
ment of the Mallon stubble digger, of 
the MacDonald hydraulics and of dou- 
ble and triple milling. On the organ- 
ization of the Sugar Planters' Associa- 
tion he refused to accept the presi- 
dency, preferring that his friend Ken- 
ner should be president, but on the 
death of Mr. Kenner in 1887 he was 
made the chief of the organization and 
served in that capacity until 1896, 
when he refused re-election. Mr. Dy- 
mond aided in the establishment of the 
Audubon Sugar Station in New Or- 
leans and was made its first president 
and continues to serve in that capac- 
ity. However, the station is now un- 
der State and Federal control. When 
the Sugar Planters' Association de- 
termined to found and publish an ex- 
clusive sugar paper Mr. Dymond was 
chosen as editor and general manager 
of the corporation which was incor- 
porated under the name of "The Lou- 
isiana Planter and Sugar Manufac- 
turer Company." 



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Mr. Dyniond became the political 
leader of the sugar planters and was 
elected as a delegate to the St. Louis 
National Democratic Convention of 
1888, when Grover Cleveland was 
nominated the second time and where 
he made a hard fight to hold down the 
ultra-free traders, who were rampant 
at that time. The continuous attacks 
on the sugar industry finally re.-ulted 
in the enactment of the Wilson tariff 
act of 1894, which struck a disastrous 
Mow at sugar. Consequently the 
sugar planters of Louisiana met at 
the Hotel Royal in New Orleans and 
with one dissenting vote decided to go 
to the ranks of the Lily White Repub- 
licans. The only dissenting vote was 
cast by .John Dyniond, who stated that 
he had been a Democrat so long that 
he could not leave the party. 

In .1888 he was made president of 
the Police Jury of Plaquemines Par- 
ish by Governor NichoUs and helped to 
drive - the last vestige of negroism 
from Louisiana politics. 

He was elected as representative of 
Plaquemines Parish in the General 
As.sembly in 1892. In 1888 he was 
elected to the constitutional conven- 
tion and was made chairman o^ the 
committee on agriculture. In 1899 he 
was nominated for governor of the 
State of Louisiana by the people of 
the surrounding sections, but on the 
announcement of Heard's nomination 
he withdrew from the race and helped 
to unanimously elect Mr. Heard. In 
1890 he helped to lead the fight 
against the Louisiana Lottery. He 
has been a Senator since 1900 with the 
exception of one term. 

He is a Mason and a member of a 
number of clubs and learned organi- 
zations of this State and nation, 



SENATOR DAVID E. BROVVN, 
Twenty-Sixth Senatorial District. 

Union Parish, the home of Gov- 
ernor Pleasant and other great men 
in the political annals of Louisiana, 
gives the State another son who is a 
power in her affairs in the person of 
Dr. David E. Brown. He was born 
at Farmerville, La., on Nov. 5, 1884, 
and was taken by his parents the 



next year to his present address, 
Chatman, La. Dr. Brown represents 
the Twenty-Sixth Senatorial District 
in the upper house of the General 
Assembly. This is his second term 
in the Senate, having been elected in 
1905 and again in 1916. 

Senator Brown married Miss Mae 




Jordan, daughter of W. W. Jordan, 
of Chatman, La., on April 4, 1906. He 
comes of a very prominent family and 
his wife is connected with some of the 
best people in the State. 

Dr. Brown received his education 
at Fort Worth University, Fort 
Worth, Tex., and then entered the 
medical department of the University 
of Nashville, where he graduated with 
honors four years later. Immediately 
upon graduation he entered on the 
practice of medicine and has continued 
in that profession ever since. He 
passed the medical boards of Arkan- 
sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas 
before he was 24 years of age. 

Fraternally the subject of this 
sketch is a member of the Masons. 
With his experience in lawmaking and 
with his admiring constituents he bids 
fair to serve his State greatly and 
well. No senator is more popular with 
his fellow-senators than is Dr. Brown. 

"A worthy man of a worthy race 
is he," 



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SENATOR DELOS R. JOHNSON, Nineteenth Senatorial District. 



Senator Johnson was born in Wash- 
ington Parish on April 4, 1879, and 
moved to Franklin, his present ad- 
dress, in 1904. On March 18, 1913, he 
married Miss Pearl Griffith, daughter 
of William Griffith. Mr. Johnson is 
the son of a Confederate soldier. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of Washington Parish, gradu- 
ating from the Franklinton High 
School. He then entered the Louisi- 
ana State Normal and graduated from 
there and began life as a teacher, at 
\\hich he made a complete success. 

Teaching during the fall and winter, 
he went to Chicago and Tulane Uni- 
versities for several summers. Sen- 



tor Johnson is now practicing law be- 
fore the bar in Washington Parish 
and is a recognized leader there. He 
served as representative from Wash- 
ington Parish during the year? 1908 
to 1916 and was elected to the Senate 
from the Nineteenth Senatorial Dis- 
trict in 1916 in reward for services 
well performed in the lower branch of 
the Legislature. 

The senator is a member of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity and is an Odd Fellow. 
He possesses a high degree of legal 
training, is eloquent, is of a high mor- 
al charcter, and is now in the early 
years of manhood. A bright future 
waits him in the history of Louisiana. 



— Page Seventy-fovr 



SKNATOK STEl'HEN UIXON 
PEARCE, 

Twentj-l'ilth Senatorial District. 

Mr. Stephen I>iyon Pcarce, of Ru.s- 
ton. La., became a citizen of that place 
when the town was first established in 
March, 1884. He was educated in the 
public schools of Bienville Parish and 
at the Southern University, Greens- 
boro, Ala. 

Mr. Pearce is a native Louisianian, 
having first seen the light of day in 
Bienville Parish on April 12, 18-54. He 
was married twice, his first wife be- 
ing Miss Mattie Mays, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mays, of Vienna, 
La., and then to Mrs. Mary L. Brooks, 
a daugh'er of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Sla- 
ton. 

Mr. Pearce is a member of the M. 
E. Church, South, and Knights of 
Py:hias. He first became identified 
with politics when in 1900 he was 




elected a member of the House of 
Representatives, serving eight years, 
i.nd was then elected to the Senate 
from the Twenty-fifth Senatorial Dis- 
trict in April, 191(i. He is an attor- 
ney of recognized ability. He was 
first admitted to the bar by the Su- 
preme Court of Louisiana in July, 
1876, and has practiced law since 
then with the exception of six years, 
from 188.5 to 1890, during which time 
he owned and edited the Vienna Sen- 



Linel and later the Huston Caligraph. 
As a member of the fourth estate 
Mr. Pearce devoted his time to edito- 
rials of the day and his writings at 
the time were widely read and favor- 
ably commented on by the foremost 
)olitical leaders and persons of prom- 
inence. As a senator he is a fitting 
representative and the country press 
is justly proud of his long and un- 
b'emished political record. 




SENATOR W>L J. JOHNSTON, 
Twenty-Third Senatorial District. 

Senator William J. Johnston, a 
farmer by profession, was born in the 
State of South Carolina at VVinnsboro 
and moved to Plain Dealing, La., his 
present address, in 1857. Mr. .John- 
ston was married three times. His 
last wife was Mrs. Rogers, daughter 
of J. E. HoUoway, of Mott, La. 

He attended the public schools of 
his parish and secured a good common 
school education and embarked on the 
sea of life as a planter, at which he 
has continued to devote his attention. 
He is one of the most prosperous 
farmers of his section, with a well- 
equipped and well-improved farm. His 
attention is confined chiefly to stock- 
laising, and he believes that that fs 
the only solution for the economic 
troubles caused by the boll weevil. 

Senator Johnson was chairman of 
the parish Democratic Executive Com- 



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niittee for several years, chairman of 
the supervisors of election, and served 
eight years here under Governors 
Nicholls and Foster. He has been a 
representative for eight years. Fra- 
ternally Mr. Johnston is a Mason and 
a Knight of Pythias. 




SENATOR MARK M. BOATNER, 
Sixth Senatorial District. 

A lawyer by profession, Mark M. 
Boatner was born in the city of Vida- 
lia, La., on May 5, 1872, and moved 
tc New Orleans, his present address, 
in 1893. He married Miss Berttie 
Bryant, daughter of J. B. Bryant. 

He was educated in the public and 
private schools of his native parish, 
receiving his higher education at Tu- 
lane University and the Virginia Mil- 
itary Institute. He graduated from 
the latter institution with the degree 
of bachelor of science and entered on 
the practice of law, which he is now 
toUowing. He served in the Spanish- 
American war from May, 1898, to 
dune, 1899, or until the Second United 
State Volunteers were mustered out 
of service. He was a member of the 
1913 constitutional convention from 
I ourteenth Ward in New Orleans. He 
is a Mason and takes an active inter- 
est in that fraternity. 



SENATOR T. L. DOWLING, 
Twenty-First Senatorial District. 

A gift from Alabama to Louisiana is 
Senator T. L. Dowling, who was born 
and reared in Ozark, Dale County, 
Ala. He was born on July 2, 1862, 
and moved to Louisiana, to Gloster, 
De Soto Parish, where he is engaged 
in the mercantile and planting busi- 
nesses. He has been twice married. 
His last wife was Miss Laura New- 
man, daughter of George Newman, of 
Abbeville, Ala. He has been a plant- 
er for twenty-one years and has a 
very beautiful and well-improved 
plantation at Gloster on which he is 
raising all the crops peculiar to our 
Louisiana climate. 

He ^^as elected to the Senate to fill 
the unexpired term of 1914 and again 
elected in 1916, both times without 
ojiposition. He is the father of the 
\i)W that requires nurses, attending 
physicians or midwives to place a so- 
lution in the eyes of newly-born in- 
fants to prevent blindness. Had he 
done nothing but this in all his life the 




Master would be well paid for send- 
ing him to this earth. Thousands and 
thousands of children are compelled 
to grope around in darkness because 
of the neglect to take the proper pre- 
cautions on their birth. He also in- 



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troducecl and had passed the bill which 
is now a law regulating search and 
seizures and regulating blind tigers. 
Mr. Dowling has been instrumental in 
having the weights and measures of 
all packages sold in Louisiana by 
weight or measure printed on the out- 
side of the wrapper. He fathered the 
bill that has for its purpose the tax- 
ing of all mineral products at their 
point of production and many more 
equally as important to the people of 
this State. He is a great man with 
a great influence. 



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SENATOR E. L. SIMMONS, 
Thirteenth Senatorial District. 

On a farm in Spencer, Tenn., in 
187-1 was born E. L. Simmons, who, 
moving to Louisiana 10 years ago and 
making his home at Breaux Bridge, 
in the land of the Acadians, comes to 
the State Capitol bearing in his hand 
a commission as senator intrusted to 
him by the people of the Thirteenth 
Senatorial District. Mr. Simmons 
married Miss Renah Patin, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Patin, of 
Breaux Bridge, on July 21, 1906. 

Mr. Simmons was educated in the 
public schools of Tennessee, receiving 
his higher education at Burritt Col- 
lege, where he easily led his classes 
and graduated with honors. He first 



entered the noble occupation of an in- 
structor of youth and then for sev- 
eral years was State agent for life 
insurance companies. He is now ed- 
itor and publisher of The Louisiana 
Advance, a paper of power and in- 
fluence in the Thirteenth District, and 
is favorably known and admired for 
its sensible views on all public ques- 
tions by the entire State. Mr. Sim- 
mons is an inveterate reader and his 
library numbers possibly more books 
than that of any other man in his sit- 
uation in Louisiana. A scholarly 
gentleman of wide attain.ments, elo- 
(]uence, and fired with the desire to 
help his adopted people into that high- 
er life of peace and plenty, of upright 
manhood and not fearing to do his 
C'U*y, he is a man that any State could 
v/elcome into her bosom with open 
arms. Coming from the same stock 
that produced other great men from 
the home of .Jackson we have reason 
to believe that Senator Simmons has 
not yet reached the summit of public 
life in Louisiana. 

Fraternally Mr. Simmons is an Elk, 
K. of P. and a member of the D. O. 
K. K., where he ranks with the best in 
their great conclaves. 




SENATOR LEON SMITH, 
Twenty-second Senatorial District. 



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SENATOR J. B. SETTOON, 
Nineteenth Senatorial District. 

Twenty-four years of public service 
already rendered and four more years 
yet to serve crowns Senator J. B. Set- 
toon with a wreath of confidence be- 
stowed by an admiring constituency. 
For eight years he served in the 
House and he has been in the Senate 
sixteen years, twenty years at the 
close of this term. He began his public 
career in 1888 as a representative 
from Livingston Parish, after serving 
that term out with credit to himself 
and friends he was promptly re-elect- 
ed for another term. In 1900 he was 
elected to the Senate from the Nine- 
teenth Senatorial District, compris- 
ing the parishes of Livingston, St. 
Helena, Tangipohoa, St. Tammany, 
and Washington, known in history as 
the Florida Parishes. 

Senator Settoon was chairman of 
the Parish Democratic Executive 
Committee from 1884 to 1888. In all 
of his public service he has acquitted 
himself with glory and is today a 
leader in the State Senate. 

He was born on -Jan. 15, 1857, at 
Springfield, La., and has lived there 
all his life. On Oct. 1.3, 1881, he was 
married to Miss Mary F. Abels, 
daughter of the Hon. Richard Abels, 
and five children, two sons and three 
daughters, all of whom are grown and 



living, grace this union. He received 
his early education in the public and 
private schoals of Livingston Parish 
and began life as a merchant, to 
which he continues to devote his time 
and energy. In addition to his mer- 
cantile establishment he owns and 
operates considerable real es'.ate. 




SENATOR GEORGE E. WILLIAMS, 
Second Senatorial District. 

Mr. George E. Williams, State sen- 
ator from New Orleans, was born in 
Mandeville, La., on April 20, 1874, 
and moved to New Orleans in 1904, 
and is now living at 4406 CarroUton 
Avenue. Like most of our other lead- 
ers in finance and politics he began 
his career in New Orleans as a rail- 
road clerk. He attended the public 
schools for a few years. While he 
was engaged in the railroad business 
he spent his nights and holidays in 
studying law and was finally admit- 
ted to the bar and is now one of the 
Crescent City's leading attorneys. Be- 
ing an attorney at law he took an 
active interest in the political affairs 
of the Crescent City and was elected 
to various offices, chief of which was 
the election four years ago to the 
State Senate. 

His ability was soon recognized and 
in the last election he was returned 



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without opposition and is now begin- 
ning a second term in the State Sen- 
ate. Mr. Williams is a member of the 
Masons, the Elks, and of various fra- 
ternal organization in the city of 
New Orleans. 




SENATOR C. M. CUNNINGHAM, 
Twenty-First Senatorial District. 

Sena'.or Cunningham was born in 
the city of New Orleans on April 2, 
1877, and moved to Natchitoches, his 
present address, in early childhood. 
He married Miss Alicia Evelena 
Payne, daughter of William Payne, of 
Natchitoches, La., on Aug. 30, 1898. 

He was educated in the Louisiana 
State Normal, of his home town, and 
began life as a teacher, where he 
made, as in all of his life's work, a 
complete success, winning the support 
of the authorities wherever he taught 
and of the State Department of Edu- 
cation. Realizing his worth as a 
teacher, a determined eflfort wa? made 
to keep him in the profession, but he 



had decided to study law and nothing, 
not even the most flattering offers, 
could tempt or deter him from his 
purpose. This is characteristic of the 
gentleman and is the reason why he 
has placed himself, by his own efforts, 
in the forefront as one of the leaders 
in Louisiana political life. "First be 
sure you are right and then go ahead 
regardless of what the world thinks" 
has been his motto, as well as that of 
David Crockett. 

After finishing his law course he 
be;jan the practice of law in the city 
of Natchitoches and so well did he do 
that he was .solicited by his friends to 
make the race for district judge at the 
early age of 29 years and was defeat- 
ed only by a small margin. He is a 
son of former Attorney General N. .J. 
Cunningham, a man who served his 
State long and well. Senator Cun- 
i.ingham has always taken an active 
part in all public and political mat- 
ters and his newspaper, the Natchi- 
toches Times, is a power for good 
throughout north Louisiana. Through 
this medium he has reached and aided 
to form the sentiment of that section 
and Mr. Cunningham, who is now in 
the prime of life, will one day occupy 
a leading place in the niche of Louisi- 
ana political life. The destinies of 
the State can very well be intrusted 
to a man who has "been weighed in 
the balances and not found wanting." 
He is a Ma.son. 

He has served in the Police .Jury 
room of his native parish as one of 
its members, in the State Senate, and 
was elected to the proposed constitu- 
tional convention of 1915. In 1916 he 
was overwhelmingly elected to anoth- 
er term in the Senate. The people of 
Natchitoches are behind this man. 



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CHARLES LOUQUE. 
Senator of the Third Senatorial District. 



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HON. HEWITT LEOMDA.S BOl ANtHAND. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

The present Speaker of the House of Representatives has been a factor in 
Louisiana politics all of his active life, having served as a member of the House 
during the administration of Governors Blanchard and Hall, and during this 
administration was selected as Speaker without opposition; was elected pres- 
idential elector by State Democratic Convention in 1904, when only 27 years of 
age, and was elected in 1914 by the House of Representatives as one of two 
members of the Legislative Investigation Committee of Louisiana. 

Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchand was born August 19, 1877, in Pointe Coupee 
Parish, the son of Captain Alcide Bouanchand of the Pointe Coupee Battery 
in the Confederate army. Mr. Bouanchand has lived in Pointe Coupee all his 
life, and was educated at Poydras Academy at New Roads, attended the Louis- 
iana State University, and was graduated from the Tulane Law School in 1902, 
since which time he has been a practicing attorney at law in the town of New 
Roads. On August 22, 1905, he was married to Miss Emma Campbell Kear- 
ney, daughter of the late George W. Kearney, of Natchitoches, and three chil- 
dren were born to their union. On June 6, 1914, Mrs. Bouanchand died, leav- 
ing three small children, the youngest but six months old. Mr. Bouanchand 
belongs to the orders W. O. W. and the S. A. E. college fraternity. 



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REPRESENTATIVE W. J. ZAUNBRECHER. 

W. Y. Zaunbiecher came to America from Germany, when a boy of 14 
years, with hardly any knowledge of the English language, and no one to 
push along his career in the new and strange country. Yet this plucky boy 
has surmounted the obstacles, overcome lack of capital by earning and sav- 
ing capital for himself, and is known as one of the large land owners of his 
native parish, as well as one of its substantial farmers and business men. 
From obscurity, a stranger in a strange land, he has now come into the 
ownership of 1300 acres of the best land in Acadia Parish, and is a director 
in the State Bank at Rayne, Louisiana, from which place he was elected to 
a seat in the General Assembly. Surely this is another instance of the trv- 
umph of German pluck, if not of preparedness. His preparedness was only 
such as a friendless boy could provide for himself, but the results accom- 
plished shows pretty conclusively that it was substantial. 

He was born in the Fatherland, in the year 1867, coming to the United 
States in 1881, where he was at first employed in the farming industry, then 
quite important in Southwestern Louisiana. Later he turned his attention 
to farming on his own account. He married Miss Mary Heinen in 1892. His 
farming operations prospered and he soon came to be recognized as among 
the leading agriculturists of that growing section. In 1908 he was chosen 



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a member of the police jury of Acadia Parish, and in 1916 was elected to the 
Legislature. He continues to give the business of farming much attention, 
and is deeply interested in all movements for the betterment of this grow- 
ing industry, as well as in the progress generally. He is a member of 
the Knights of Columbus, in his native city, and takes an active interest in 
the various activities of that large social organization. He has made his 
home at Rayne, La., since 1881. 




THOMAS C. ANDERSON, 
Representative, Orleans Parish. 

Representative Anderson lives at 122 North Rampart Street, New Or- 
leans, and is a merchant and real estate owner. He owns considerable prop- 
erty in New Orleans, and is always found ready and willing to do anything 
to improve the city. He is a great friend to the young men who are trying 
to better their condition, and has aided several to do this. 

Mr. Anderson is a staunch Democrat and is a member of the various 
Democratic clubs of his home city. He is very active in New Orleans poli- 
tics, always standing for the better class of politics. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Legislature for twenty years, and has always served his State 
faithfully and earnestly. 



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GEORGE J. ABRY, 

Representative, Orleans Parish. 

One of the clever representatives from Orleans Pa,rish is , Mr. George J. 
Abry. He is a hail fellow well met, and is very popular among the Crescent 
City aggregation. 

He was born in the great metropolis, which he so fittingly represents, on 
the 10th (lay of April, 1874, and has been a resident there all his life. He 
was educated in the public schools and in Soule's College of his native city. 
In May, 1900, one of New Orleans' most popular and accomplished society 
belles. Miss Georgiana Hefner, daughter of Mr. Hy. Hefner, a prominent 
citizen, became his bride. From this happy union came one charming 
daughter, who is the joy and pride of the Abry household. Being popular 
in that part of the Crescent City from which he hails, his personal friends 
insisted upon his emerging into politics, with the result that he was elected 
a Representative to the session of the Legislature of 1916. This, though, 
is not his first political venture, as once before he was elected a Represen- 
tative from the Fifth Congressional District. 

Mr. Abry is a member of the F. O. E., and, also, of the Druids, and ranks 
high in these frateral organizations. When not actively engaged in poli- 
tics he is the one scientific house raiser and mover in Louisiana. 



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J. SIDNEY LECLERE, Representative, Orleans Parish. 

Representative J. Sidney Leclere was born in the city of New Orleans on 
Oct. 20, 1863, and has lived there all his life. On Sept. 26, 1888, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Maggie Beatty, daughter of Captain Beatty, one of the most 
famous stevedores that ever lived in the Crescent City. The captain was 
known by more people and was one of the most sought-after stevedores of 
the South, serving royalty several times. 

Mr. Leclere was educated in the public schools of his native city and began 
life as a clerk in a wholesale dry goods store, but soon tired of this life and 
entered business for himself. He established and is proprietor of the Coal 
Sales Agency, which buys and sells as much or more coal than any other 
agency in the city of New Orleans, and the gentleman has built up a repu- 
tation for honesty and integrity that is known and respected throughout tho 
extent of the Mississippi Valley and the coal fields of Alabama and Illinois. 

His first and only political office before being elected to the House in 191.5, 
and again in 1916, was deputy register of conveyance, Orleans Parish, from 
1896 to 1900. He is a member of the Elks and the Druids and numbers a host 
of friends in these organizations. With his great eloquence, extensive business 
experience, ability to form friendships and social standing he is fast forging 
ahead as one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in New Orleans. He en- 



— Page Eighty-five 



joys the confidence of the country members such as few other city members 
enjoy. 




SIMON LEOPOLD, 
Representative Plaquemines Parish. 

Perhaps no problem with which the State of Louisiana has to cope has 
been the cause of more thought and a larger expenditure of funds than the 
matter of flood control. In this work the Representative from Plaquemines 
Parish, Hon. Simon Leopold, has played a prominent part. Much of his 
business life has been spent in levee work, as a contractor, and he has as- 
sisted in many a hard fight to save from destruction lands in and about his 
native parish. 

Mr. Leopold was born in Plaquemines Parish, July 10, 1862, and in 1879 
removed to Phoenix, La., which is his present home. He was educated in 
the schools of his native parish, after which he entered a mercantile house 
as a clerk, where he learned general merchandising- and laid the founda- 
tion for his business career. After some years spent in this way he began 
business for himself. By industry and thrift he has built up a responsible 
business, both as a merchant and a planter. 

His knowledge of levees and levee work has been recognized in the House, 



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where he has been made chairman of the committee with this subject in 
hand. 

Mr. Leopold was married "in 1«89 to Miss Regain Bauer, daughter of R. 
Bauer,, of Pointe-a-la-Hache, La. He has served as president of the Parish 
School Board and has always shown a deep interest in educational matters 
pei-taining to his parish. He is a member of the Elks and Knights of Pyth- 
ias lodges, and is a member of the executive committee of the Democratic 
party, with which he has always held close affiliation. Mr. Leopold has two 
daughtiers, both of whom are married. 




REP. PHANOR O. COX, 

Born on a farm near Vowell's Mi'l, 
Natchitoches parish, La., on March 1 4, 
1892, and educated in the public 
schools of his parish, and carving liis 
way in that great region is Mr. Phanor 
O. Cox. He is a young man of splendid 
attainments, of marked eloquence, fine 
moral character, and comes from one 
of the best and oldest families of this 
State. His people are from Missis- 
sippi, near the home of the idol of 
the South, Jeff'erson Davis, and from 
Alabama. His grandfather enlisted 'n 
one of the first volunteer regiments 
on the outbreak of the Civil War, and 
died of pneumonia at the siege of 
Vicksburg, just after being promoted 
for bravery. 

His father is a planter, owning sev- 
eral hundred acres in Natchitoches 
parish, whicTi is well stocked with 
some of the best animals in Louisi- 
ana. Phanor takes a great interest in 



everyting pertaining to the agricul- 
tural and educational development of 
this State. After finishing the public 
schools of his section, he entered the 
State Normal School at Natchitochi;s, 
La., where he set the mark so high Tui 
scholarship and deportment that no 
one has yet surpassed him there. He 
was a useful and interested partici- 
pant in all forensic activities. After 
several terms at the Normal he en- 
gaged in the honorable and useful oc- 
cupation of a teacher, at which be 
continues to devote his time and 
energy. In his chosen field he has woi 
the support and esteem of his parii-h 
authrorities and is favorably known 
by the State Department of Educa- 
tion. It is said that a prophet is not 
without honor save in his own coun- 
try, but Mr. Cox is an exception, tor 
he has the united support of all the 
people who know him best. 

When he decided to enter the race 
for representative in 1916 he resigned 
from nis school, and with some of the 
most able men of Natchitoches as his 
opponents, lacked only two votes in 
leading the race of six. He is the first 
man for years that has been elected 
to office in Nathhitoches who does not 
stand in with the "powers that be." 
He is familiarly known in politics in 
his home parish as "The Kid from 
the Hills," and being a product of the 
common people, would rather be in 
the hills with the people that he serves 
than elsewhere. He is unmarried. 

With his love for the right, fear- 
lessness of the future, his capacity 
for making friends, he bids fair to 
become one of the great men of Lou- 
isiana. 

"Deniothenes could not rival him 
for eloquence, Socrates for truth, 
Leonidas for bravery, or Caesar for 
constructive ability." 



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L. W. RAWLINGS, 
Representative, Orleans Parish. 

If the history of public men were to be written for the entire nation it would 
be found that not a few of the substantial ones- rose from the printer's case. 
Since Franklin's time compositors have been alert regarding the questions 
of the hour, and the knowlege gained in the composing room of some news- 
paper has become the stepping-stone to bigger things. Such was the case 
with Representative L. W. Rawlings, wha served a goodly portion of his life 
in the offices of the New Orleans States, Times, Picayune and Item, years 
before he became a police captain, the title by which he was best known prior 
to his election to the House of Representatives. From printer to patrolman, 
then corporal, sergeant, and finally captain on the city force, tells the story 
of his rise from the ranks. His election to the law-making body at Baton 
Rouge is evidence of the esteem in which his work was held by his friend.s 
and neighbors who knew him best. Not every printer, or every police officer, 
can boast of such an indorsement of his life work. 

Mr. Rawlings was born in Richmond, Va., Feb. 2, 1858, and his early boy- 
hood was spent in the midst of stirring scenes connected with the war. Hi 
was. left an oi'phan at an early age, removed to New Orleans in 1869, and after 
securing a common-school education he learned the printer's trade, serving 



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in the composing rooms of the largest city dailies. In 1888 he secured a po- 
sition as patrolman on the force, and after rising to a captaincy retired dur- 
ing the year 1914, after twenty-six years of meritorious sei-vice. When the 
primary election approached the people of his district turned to the ex-police 
captain as their candidate for the Legislature i-nd he was elected to the off'ii'e 
April 18, 1916. 

Although long unaccustomed to the case, he is an honorary member of ihc 
Typographical Union at New Orleans and is recognized by the craft as "one 
of the boys." 

In fraternal circles, as in his work, he has risen to a position near the top 
among his associates in the Masonic orer, having attained the thirty-second 
degree, Scottish Rites and Mystic Shrine, advancing from Master Mason to 
the Council by the York Rite. This is his first appearance in State politics. 
His experience has been wholly of the city which he represents, and in the 
serious problems which confront that city at this session he will bring a fund 
of information which will be of inestimable service to its people. 




REPRESENTATIVE W. O. HUNTER, 
Red River Parish. 

A superintendent of a Baptist Sun- 
day school, the son of a Baptist 
preacher, a member of the Baptist 
Church for a long number of years, 
speaks well that the destinies of our 
State will continue to lay along that 
upper way of per.ce and prosperity. 
There is a great need of this type of 
men in the aifairs of life to-day, for, 
possibly, they were never needed be- 
fore as they arc needed now. Repre- 



sentative Hunter was born at Liberty, 
Red River parish. La., on Jan. 29, 
1881, and moved to Couoliatta, La., his 
present address, several years ago. He 
was married on June 3, 1914, to Mijs 
Sadie Crawford, Halls Summit, La., 
a popular leader in the social and re- 
ligious lifo of that section. 

Mr. Hunter received his secondary 
education in the public schools of Red 
River parish and his higher educu- 
tion at Mount Lebanor. College and 
the Louisiana State Normal, Natchi- 
toches, La. He was for a long time a 
teacher in the public schools of ihe 
State, farming during his vacations, 
and in this work he has written iiis 
name with ink that cannot be erased 
on the youth of his section. After a 
time he embarked in the general mer- 
chandise buEiness, at which he is now 
engaged in the town of Coushatta. He 
served out the unexpired term in the 
Legislature from his home parish in 
1915, and then was elected for four 
years in 1916. 

The subject of this sketch is Consul 
Commander of his camp of the Wood- 
men of the World, and is a member 
of the Masonic fraten^ity. He is a 
recognized power in the House, and 
with his experience he bids fair to 
become one of the leaders on con- 
structive legislation. 



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REP. S. A. PENNINGTON, 
Jefferson Davis Parish. 

S. A. Pennington was born Jan. 7, 
1896, and was reared on a farm in the 
sand liills of Mississippi near the town 
of Chuncky. 

After attending and completing the 
high school course of his native State, 
he entered the medical department of 
the University of Tennessee, and 
graduated April, 1900. After taking 
the degree and feeling the impor- 
tance of further training along his 
chosen profession, he entered the New 
York Post Graduate School and Hos- 
pital and completed the course of that 
institution. He then came to Louisi- 
ana, and located at Jacoby, August, 
1901, and resided there until March, 
1909, with a large and lucrative prac- 
tice, when he left there on account of 
the demoralized condition of that sec- 
tion caused by the boll weevil. He 
moved to Elton and organized and 
v/as president for two years of the 
People's Bank of that place. He has 
successfully operated a drug store in 
his home town in connection with his 
chosen profession. 

He was a member of the constitu- 
tional convention of 1913 and electjd 
to the proposed convention of 1915. He 
was given a handsom.e majority to the 
lower house in 1916. The subject of 



this sketch is a member of the Wood- 
men of the World. Again does Louisi- 
ana show that she awaits the new- 
comer with open arms and offers iiim 
the best opportunities in the world if 
he will only work. The man who never 
had an opportunity in Louisiana is a 
man who would not know one if he 
met it coming down the road. 




REP. GEORGE M. NORRIS, 
De Soto Parish. 

George M. Norris, representative 
from De Soto parish. La., a seasoned 
legislator, having been elected for 
three consecutive terms, and appears 
good for a number of additional years' 
service in the future. His father caine 
from Florida in 1859, landing on 
Christmas day, and making his settle- 
ment on Grand Bayou, later movin^j 
to Mansfield, where he secured a 
farm three miles south of that town. 
The subject of this sketch was born 
in Pike county, Alabama, six years 
prior to the immigration into the 
Pelican State, the date of his birth 
being April 20, 1853. While never in 
sympathy with the great apostle of 
Bull Moosism, he is an exponent of 
anti-race suicide, and possesses an 
exceedingly interesting family of ten 
children, now living, only one out of a 
family of eleven children having died. 



— Pngr Nivrti/ 



He was married Dec. 2, 1875, to 
Miss Myra Johnson, of Brandon, Miss., 
and farming has been the family occu- 
pation, principally, Mr. Norris eii- 
gaffing in saw mill and mercantile 
line from 1884 to 1908, in addition to 
his farming pursuits. 

In 1900 Mr. Norris was elected as a 
justice of the peace, but was counted 
out in the general election after hav- 
ing won the DemicraHc primary elec- 
tion. He brought suit and won in the 
lower court, the decision being sus- 
tained in the higher court on appeal 
by liis opponent. He was re-elected in 
1904, but resigned m 1905. He began 
his service in the House in 1912, oa- 
ing re-elected in 1912 and 1916, seeing 
service . at the State capitol under 
three different administrations. His 
experience as a legislator and a bu-si- 
ness man well equips him to repre- 
sent his parish, and the repeated vote 
of confidence which he has received 
at the hands of his constituents shows 
that his efforts are appreciated among 
the voters. 




REP. WH.LIAM P. NORMAN, 
Winn Parish. 

■ William Norman, who comes to the 
House for his second term, from 
Winn parish, admits to being a 
schoolmaster, which is not regarded 



as a handicap since the path from 
"cap and gown" to high political 
honors wns blazed by President Wood- 
row Wilson. He was born Oct. 20, 
18G8, in Bossier parish, going to the 
town of Winnficld in 1896, where he 
followed the profession of teaching, 
and a conspicuous figure in his chosen 
calling. He attended the public schools 
at Bossier parish and later entered 
Keachie LI?.Ie and Female College, 
where he completed his ei'.ucation with 
a view to school work. 

In 1912 he was chosen by the peo- 
ple of his home district as their repre- 
sentative in the House and so well 
did he perform his services in that 
capacity that he v;as re-elected with- 
out opposition in 1916, during a time 
of political unrest when there were 
many aspirants anxious to serve their 
fellow-citizens in legislative and fx- 
ccn'ive positions in the St?,tc. 

Mr. Norman is a church worker, 
and in his religious affiliations is 
known as a loyal member of the Bap- 
tist denomination, to which he gives 
his talents freely at all times. He is 
also a member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity,, the Knights of Pythias and 
the Woodmen of the World. In politics 
he has always been a Democrat, work- 
ing and moving in harmony with his 
party, and in the strenuous cairipaign 
just closed he was an enthusiastic 
supporter of Governor Pleasant, whom 
he greatly admires. There is work for 
members of Mr. Norman's experience 
in the present session where impor- 
tant educational measures are to be 
considered, and in the consideration 
of these laws he will bring practical 
knowledge of real conditions, which 
would be impossible for those who 
have never had occasion to meet l.ie 
problems of the school system. 



REP. MARK A. WINN, 
Claiborne Parish. 

"They are growing cotton success- 
fully in north Louisiana, in spite of 
the boll weevil," said a member of the 
extension service connected with Lou- 
isiana State University, recently. 
"They seem, partially, at least, to 
have solved this vexing problem.'' 



— Pfigi' Nhicfij-one 




Claiborne parish is one of the sections 
in which this result has been acconi^ 
plished. They grow many products in 
this agricultural community, but one 
of the important crops is coftah, which 
yield no small amount in making up 
the sum total of rural wealth. Per- 
haps this fact had something to do 
with the selection of a practical farm- 
er and cotton warehouse manager to 
represent them in the House this yeai' 
'.in the person of Hon. Mark A. Winn, 
f who for the past year has had the 
l^andlinjg of large . quantities of this 
staple product and comes to the 
State, house with a fund of practical 
experience which may be turned to 
good account in shaping legislation in 
the interest of this great industry. 

Mr. Winn was born at Haynesville, 
La., March 22, 1869, where he still 
feskles. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools of his parish, and has 
won his way to an honored position 
without the assistance of an 
education. He was married to Miss 
Mattie Price, daughter of Captain 
Thomas Price, Nov. 13, 1898, and has 
devoted his entire time to the farm and 
cotton warehouse up to the date of his 
election to the House this year. Never 
having held office in parish or State, 



he can hardly be charged with being a 
"professional" politician, and in en- 
tering his duties at Baton Rouge he 
brings with him from this leading 
agricultural parish the principles -)i 
butiincss management which have 
gained success in private life at home. 




REP. JAMES T. SHELL, 
Morehouse Parish. 

Alone entrusted with the represen- 
tation of Morehouse parish in the 
House of Representatives, Mr. SIm il 
conies from Bastrop, La., where ho 
has lived since 1909. He was born 
Oct. 1.5; 1870, at Chatham, La., and 
was married in 190.3 to Migs Jessie 
Matheny, • daughter of Joseph 
Matheny, of Aberdeen, Miss. 

Mr. Shell was first elected city at- 
torney for the city of Bastrop in 1909, 
and he still holds that position. In 
addition he is representative. He w is 
first elected in 1912 to the State law- 
making body and served his term out, 
whereupon the people of Morehouse, 
almost against his protest, re-elected 
him. He is a quiet unassuming man 
and knows how to get results which 
mean for the advancement "of this 
State. 



— Page Ninety-two 




REP. LEON J. LANDRY 
Iberia Parish. 

A flag-bearer of the ProgresM"e 
party in Louisiana is Representative 
Leon J. Landry, of Iberia parish. lie 
stands firmly for the principles which 
actuated and carried on the State 
caiTipaign of Hon. John M. Parker 'ir 
the gubernatorial chair of Louisiana, 
and he believes that the only solutioii 
for the economic troubles is found in 
the platform of the party which has 
dared to attack the Democratic par:y 
in its Louisiana stronghold. Mr. Lan- 
dry was born at Segura, La., on Jan. 
22, 1883, and has lived there all his 
life. In 1907 he was married to the 
charming Miss Carrie Galye, of Ibeia 
parish. She is the daughter of Dr. A. 
C. Gayle. 

Representative Landry was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his iia- 
tive parish and received his higher 
education in Grand Coteau College, 
in the Kentucky State University, in 
Spring Hill College and in the United 
States Military Academy of West 
Point. He is a man of profound learii- 
ing and a man who does not fear 'o 
lead where his mind tells him to go. 
Such men as he are men who make 
history in this world. 

He began life as a planter, and i.= 
still engaged in that occupation, in 



which he has been very successful. He 
is a member of the T. P. A. and ci 
the Elk.s. Before being elected to the 
Legislature he was police jury meni- 
ber of his native parish, and the good 
roads and other public improvements 
show that when he goes to serve :he 
people he c'.ocs business. He is actively 
engaged in legislative work and has 
many friends in the legislative halls, 
even though this is his maiden tern. 




REP. FRANK E. POWELL, 
Beauregard Parish. 

Born in West Feliciana parish, Dec. 
11, 1881, of the old Southern stock of 
people, Frank E. Powell is an in- 
heritor of their culture and chivalry 
which is winning for him a place in the 
counsels of the State very rapidly. 
Mr. Powell was educated in the public 
schools of New Orleans, and graduated 
from the Boys' High School. Later he 
entered Tulane University and gradu- 
ated from the academic and law de- 
partments, showing himself to be one 
of the best trained men ever turned 
from the portals f that institution. 

Immemdiately after graduation he 
entered on the practice of law in l)c 
Ridder, La., where he has a large 
practice. He stands for the ethics of 
his profession, discouraging litigation 
with all his power, preferring to settle 



the cases outside of court. However, 
when this cannot be done, he goes to 
the bar with the determination to win, 
and in nearly every case he does win. 
Mr. Powell was married on Dec. :jC, 
1907, to Miss Margaret Jessc'n, 
daughter of Emil Jessen, of Cameri>n 
parish. He was first elected to the 
Legislature in 1912, and he served h.s 
people so faithfully that he was le- 
elected in 1916. With his experience 
in legislative matters he is one of the 
leaders on the floor of the House. He 
is chairman of Judiciary "A" and 
ex-officio chairman of the joint judi- 
ciary. 



— Page Ninety-three 




JAMES WALLACE ALEXANDER, 
Representative, Rapides Parish. 

A descendant of the Alexanders for 
which the town of Alexandria, Va., is 
named, the oldest and most respected 
families of Virginia, Mr. James Wal- 
lace Alexander is one of the favorites 
on the floor of the House. He was 
born on April 20, 1862, in Mecklen- 
burg county, Va., and moved to his 
present address in 1886. On Dec. .^1, 
1891, he married Miss Cora Luckett, 
daughter of Dr. Robert Luckett, of 
Boyce, La. 

He received his education in the 
public schools and began life as a 
clerk. He then engaged in the insur- 



ance business, at which he is at pres- 
ent. Mr. Alexander is a thirty-second 
degree Mason, Shriner, an Elk, and 
stands very high in all these organiza- 
tions. 

For a number of years he was city 
councilman for the city of Alexan- 
dria, La., where he helped to plan and 
direct the building of the beautifiil 
streets that that town now has. He 
v/as elected to the constitutional con- 
vention of 191.3 and to the Legislature 
in 1904 and 1916. 



S. S. McCULLOUGH. 
Representative, Vernon Parish. 

Perhaps no natural resource has 
been so potent in attracting foreign 
capital to this State as the great for- 
ests which were once the crowning 
glory of Louisiana, but which have 
been greatly reduced in importance 




on account oi the vast lumber opera- 
tions which have been carried on 
through a long period of wealth-pro- 
ducing years. Among the richest par- 
ishes of the State, fifth in the value 
of its resources, Vernon has but a 
single representative in the House, in 
the person of Hon. S. S. McCuUough, 
of Fullerton, who is just entering up- 
on his first term. 
Mr. McCullough was born at Sugar- 



— Page Ninety-four 



town, La., down in Calcasieu Parish, 
July 2, 1877. In 1900 he married 
Miss Emily, daughter of John John- 
son, of Vernon Parish, and in 1907 re- 
moved to that community, making his 
home at Fullerton, where he is en- 
gaged in mercantile pursuits. He 
was educated in Public schools, finish- 
ing at Natchitoches, after which he 
taught school for a number of years. 
In political life he has served as jury 
commissioner and deputy sheriff, prior 
to his election to the Legislature. He 
is one of the new members in the 
House, but comes with a fund of ex- 
perience, concerning the industries in 
which' Tiis constituents are largely 
employed, viz. lumber, tui-pentine and 
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REPRESENTATIVE A. M. SMITH. 
Vermilion Parish. 

School teachers seem to have pen- 
chant for politics. In this history you 
will find a large number of present 
and former school teachers sitting in 
the Legislature and holding other po- 
sitions of trust and honor in the State 
of Louisiana. Mr. A. M. Smith, of 
Kaplan, is no exception to the rule. 
He made a success of the public 
school of Vermilion Parish as super- 
intendent, organizing and establish- 



ing a splendid system. His construc- 
tive power was soon recognized, and 
though a comparative stranger in 
Kaplan, he was Tnade mayor of the 
town. Success followed the new trust, 
and the jeward was his election to the 
Legislature in the spring of 1916. 

Mr. Smith is a young man, born in 
1881, in Tennessee, and educated in 
the Peabody College at Nashville. In 
1913 he came to Abbeville as Superin- 
tendent of Education, and was mar- 
ried to Miss G. E. Summers. He is a 
Shriner, a 32nd degree Mason, a mem- 
ber -of the Woodmen of the World, and 
of the Maccabees, and is the success- 
ful cashier of the Ban"k of Kaplan. 

He is the kind of emigrant that the 
State of Louisiana is proud to wel- 
come; an American, educated, intelli- 
gent and a valuable asset to the 
State. 

Mr. Smith was also selected as an 
alternate delegate to the St. Louis 
Democratic Convention. 




KEP. B. VV. NEWSOM. 
St. Helena Parish. 

A straight Democi-at, always voting 
the Democratic ticket, coming from 
the uplands of St. Helena parish with 
a commission as representative en- 
trusted to his keeping, is B. W. New- 



— ^Eage Ninety-fivi' 



som, of Liverpool, La. He was born 
in St. Helena parish in 1874, and has 
lived there all his life. In 1894 he 
married Miss AUie Day, daughter of 
T. G. Day, of his native parish. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of St. Helena, but coming to 
manhood when the State was in the 
grasp of the carpet-baggers the 
schools were of very little account 
and only run for about two months 
in the year, consequently Mr. New- 
som has gotten his education by his 
own efforts in private study. He was 
first a farmer and then entered the 
mercantile business, at which he has 
been engaged for the past sixteen 
years. He is a Woodmen of the 
World. 

Mr. Newsom has served as jury 
commissioner for several years; has 
been postmaster at Liverpoool for 
eight years under Taft and Roosevelt, 
and has been a representative since 
1912. His grandfather was a repre- 
sentative for twelve years, one term 
in the Senate, and was commissioner 
of agriculture under Governor Foster. 




REPRESENTATIVE J. J. LEWIS, 
Jackson, Parish. 
Probably no problem of the State of 



Louisiana has been more thoroughly 
the concern of her ablest citizens than 
has the educational system, now com- 
ing bravely to the front, but held back 
for so many years by difficulties 
which seemed almost beyond solution. 
The heavy negro population, widely 
scattered country settlements, whore 
white children have to travel long dis- 
tances to centers of population,' and 
the natural topography of the State 
have been factors in these difficulties, 
and many lawmakers have souj^ht 
ways and means for applying a rem- 
edy which shall take this great com- 
monwealth out of her unenviable posi- 
tion for illiteracy. Among those of 
the present Legislature who have ex- 
pressed a determination to work for 
reform of the school system is J. J. 
Lewis, representative from Jackson 
parish. 

Mr. Lewis was born at Mansfield, 
La., July 9, 1869, and removed to 
Jonesboro, in Jackson parish, in 190r>. 
In 1895 he was married to Miss Maiy 
Mabry, daughter of Mrs. Catherine 
Mabry. Mr. Lewis was educated at 
Ruston, La., and took up occupation of 
teaching after finishing his school 
course, becoming a farmer in 1911, 
which has occupied his attention 
since that time. In following the 
teaching profession he became con- 
vinced of the need for reform along 
educational lines, and will make an 
effort to put this knowledge to prac- 
tical use during his term in the House. 

Mr. Lewis is a member of the 
Woodmen of the World, and prefers 
to be known among his associates as 
a farmer, representing the agricul- 
tural interests, not only of his own 
parish but of the State at large. He 
served as a member of the constitu- 
tional convention of 1913, and was 
also chosen as a delegate to the con- 
vention proposed last year, but which 
never convened. Although a new mem- 
ber, his views have become known 
throughout the House, and his friends 
say he will be heard from in no un- 
certain tones when the proper time 
arrives for action. 



— Paffe Ninety-six 




L. El'GENE HOOTER, 
Representative Catahoula Parish. 

Schoolmaster-, mahe some of the 
greatest statesmen, as is witnessed by 
the places of honor that have beer 
held and that are being lield by men 
who are and have been teachers. Mr. 
Hooper, a teacher by profession and 
who intends to make this his life's 
work, was born at Enterprise, La., on 
Aug. 1, 1891, and has lived there all 
his life. He is unmarried. 

Mr. Hooper was born on a farm 
and has lived close to nature, receiv- 
ing in his frame the graces which 
only a man who daily sees the crea- 
tions of the Master can receive. He 
was educated in a one-room country 
school, later attending Louisiana In- 
dustrial Institute. After leaving the 
Industrial Institute he engaged in the 
teaching profession, at which he con- 
tinues to work. He, knowing the needs 
of a large education for the country 
all movements to improve the status 
of the country school and to bring 
to the students of these schools the 
best that theer is in the way of an 
education to a love for home. He be- 
lieves that the problem of congestion 
in cities can and must be solved in 
the country by providing more and 
better school facilities, good roads, 



places of clean amusement for the 
country boys and girls, rural free de- 
liveries and country telephones. He is 
a member of the committee on edu- 
cation, and is lending his efforts to 
place our schools on a level with the 
best in the nation. 

The subject of this sketch is a mem- 
ber of the Macabees and is one of 
many of that order in the Legislature. 
He has a birght mind, manly disposi- 
tion and will serve his State well and 
long. 




J. R. ERBELDING, 
Representative, Cameron Parish. 

.J. B. Erbelding, representing Cam- 
eron parish in the Louisiana Stiite 
Legislature, was born at Johnson 
Bayou, La., Sept. 4, 1865, and has 
been a resident of Cameron parish all 
his life. Educated in the public 
schools, he has had wide experience 
in local public atfirs before entering 
the State house, and conies with a 
fund of experience regarding the in- 
terests of his constituents. 

On Jan. 22, 1891, he married Miss 
Lydia S. Wakefield, daughter of 
George Wakefield, also of Cameron 
parish, and took up the occupation of 
farming, in which he has always re- 
tained a deep interest. He has served 



■ — Pafte N ivety-seven 



as police juror for a period of four 
years and one term as school director. 
A notary public for fifteen years, he 
also seived one term as justice of iKe 
peace for the Fifth Ward, Cameron 
parish. He served as chief deputy in 
the clerk of court's office for sixtepn 
years and as deputy sheriff for 'jne 
term. 

In politics he is a Democrat who 
has been active in the local councils 
of his party, and always in harness 
when there was work to be done. A? 
secretary for the parish executive 
committee, for many years he per- 
formed valuable service to the party, 
which met with substantial apprecia- 
tion in his candidacy for the Hou^e. 
He is a member of the Eagle Lod.^e 
and the Order of Moose, and is known 
in his home community as a substan- 
tial farmer and ranchman. 




REPRESENTATIVE UPSHUR 

PAYNE BREAZEALE. 

Natchitoches Parish. 

Ushered into the world at the be- 
ginning of the gigantic struggle be- 
tween the States in the year I860 and 
coming to manhood during the times 
of the -reconstruction, the subject of 
this sketch represents the fine old 
chivalrous spirit, bravery, uprighte- 



ousness, honor and tenacity of pur- 
pose which has always marked out 
'the Southern man as a leader of men 
wherever he goes. Upshur Payne 
Breazeale is no exception to this rule, 
for he has indelibly stamped his char- 
acter on the people of Natchitoches 
Parish, and they show their confidence 
in his ability and In him as a gentle- 
men by electing him to various offices 
whenever he calls for election. He was 
born in the town of Natchitoches and 
has lived there all his life. He is un- 
married and is a confirmed bachelor, 
so he says. 

When he was a growing - boy the 
State oi Louisiana was at its lowest 
ebb in agricultural, financial and edu- 
cational life. To mention merely one 
phase of the deprivations of that 
period only we find that the schools 
and educational facilities were almost 
nothing and Mr. Breazeale had never 
an opportunity of acquiring any kind 
of education in schools or colleges. 
And yet, without these educational fa- 
cilities, the subject of this sketch suc- 
ceeded in educating himself between 
work days, after hours and at night, 
until today he is one of the best post- 
ed men in Louisiana. His training 
and learning are solid, his knowledge 
is wide and accurate and the range of 
his facts denote that he is a wide and 
deep reader. 

From 1896 to 1906 he was parish 
superintendent of educatic-n for the 
Parish of Natchitoches, where the re- 
forms he instituted arnl the new meth- 
ods applied have placed this parish in 
the very front in school matters. In 
1908 he was appointed registrar of 
voters and continued in that position 
until 1912, when the position was abol- 
ished, or rather, given over to the 
Clerk of Court. He has been secre- 
tary of the Parish Democratic com- 
mittee since 1896, and was just re- 
elected for four more years, which m 
itself is prima facie evidence of the 
confidence which the people of his par- 
ish bestow upon him. A great man, 
who has spent the larger part of his 
life unselfishly serving the people of 
his parish and State is he. Would 
that we had more! 



-Page Xmety-eic/lit 




REP. T. H. McEACHERN, 
Claiborne Parish. 

A full-fledged Democrat who has al- 
ways voted the party ticket straight, 
a man of large attainments, great 
eloquence, suave in manners, capacity 
for making friends and then holding 
these friends is T. H. McEachern, of 
Homer, La., Claiborne parish. He was: 
born at Haynesville, La., on Aug. 12 
1884, and married Miss Iva Harris on 
June 7, 1914. This charming young 
lady was a native of Minden, La., and 
is connected with the men who make 
history in the northern part of this 
State. 

The subject of this sketch was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his town, 
Haynesville, and then attended the 
Law Department of Louisiana State 
University, where he graduated in 
1914 at the head of his class. In col- 
lege McEachern was marked as a man 
of business, plodding along in the 
even tenor of his way, winning the 
respect and admiration of the student 
body and the confidence of the faculty. 
No man of Louisiana State Univer- 
sity numbered a greater number of 
friends than this young man, and 
these friends will know how to serve 
him as the years go by. 

He moved to Homer, La., on Aug. 
21, 1914, and in less than two years 



of practice before the bar he has 
built up a large and lucrative law bus- 
iness, and has so won the respect and 
esteem of his neighbors that they 
overwhelmingly elected him their rep- 
resentative over some of the leaders 
of Claiborne. He is a Mason and a 
Columbia Woodman. He is a membir 
of the committee on appropriations 
and the judiciary committe. 

"A sterling man and a good friend." 




REP. A. HOFFPAUIR, 
Bossier Parish. 

A. Hoffpauir, one of the two repre- 
sentatives from Bossier parish, was 
born in Arcadia parish, La., on Sept. 
17, 1853, but removed to Hughes 
Spur, Bossier parish, La., in Novem- 
ber, 1901. He married Miss Lucinda 
Perry, of Lafayette parish, in 1885. 
He engaged in farming, which has 
been his principal occupation since 
that time. After his removal to Bo.s- 
sier parish he became interested in 
stock raising and the problem of rural 
credits, to which he will give atten- 
tion in the present session. Mr. HofT- 
pauir believes in the future of Lou- 
isiana, and believes that the future 
Louisiana will be largely developed by 



— Page Ninety-nine 



the introduction of better cattle, 
horses, mules and other farm stook, 
which is impossible, in many cases, 
unless the farmer can have the bene- 
fit of liberal credit laws and prac- 
tices. He is working for the accom- 
plishment of something along this 
line at the 1916 session of the Legis- 
lature, contending that the farmer 
should have more money and at a rea- 
sonable rale of interest, with a long- 
time to pay the principal. 

He has served as justice of ihc 
peace, member of the police jury and 
as school director through a long teim 
of years, and few in the northern sec- 
tion of Louisiana are more famiUar 
with the needs of the country people 
with whom he has spent practically 
all of his active business years. 




REP. GUY H. HOLLOWAY, 
Union Parish. 

Serving his maiden term in the 
House is Guy H. Holloway, of Marion, 
La. He hails from the same section 
that produced Governor Ruffin G. 
Pleasant, and, of course, as are all 
people of Union parish, he is a firm 
supporter of our chief executive. Mr. 
Holloway is a man of sterling quali- 



ties, honest, a thorough gentleman, 
who, knowing the right, does not fear 
to do the right, never fails to dig 
down- in his pocket and produce even 
his last dollar for a friend in heed, 
and in every way he is a man to be 
respected and loved. 

Mr. Holloway was born of parents 
in very modest conditions in life, and 
starting out to carve his fortune on 
reaching his majority, he was without 
a single dollar that he could call his 
own. Without any influential frie:i:ls 
and without money backing, he began 
life as a mail carrier on the star rou*^e 
between Monroe and Ouachita, La. 
By dint of saving and hard labor he 
managed to amass several thousand 
dollars, which he invested in property. 
Seeing the need of an education, he 
attended the Marion High School and 
then went to Draughton's Business 
College, Shreveport, where he gradu- 
ated. Then he went back to his home 
and soon became manager of his 
uncle's large store. Not satisfied with 
his neat income and thirsting for 
more education, he entered the Lou- 
isiana State University, where he 
graduated with the following degrees: 
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and 
Bachelor of Laws. 

Mr. Holloway went back to his 
home parish and began the practice 
of law, and within six months from 
his graduation with his last deg'.ee 
was in the race for representative 
from his parish, in which he won 
with more votes than both of his 
other opponents received. 

Mr. Holloway has yet to meet the 
lady of his choice. With his large 
native ability, profound learning and 
handsome income, honesty, integrity 
and support he is sure to win the 
admiration of our statesmen in the 
days that are to come. 

"A peer without an equal." 



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IJICI*. ADOI.I'H l>. S'I'AKN.S, 
(.it^iiiKHtor. I'arish. 

Mr. Adolph 1). Starns of Livinjj.ston 
I'arish is a native of the parish which 
Vie so ably represents in the House of 
Representatives, having been born 
there on the 2Hth day of July, 1857. 

His wife and helpmate, a most es- 
timable lady, was formerly Miss Lula 
A. Rankston, daughter of Mr. Wil- 
liam.son Bankston, a pioneer of Liv- 
ioRston Parish. 

Mr. Starns was e<lucated in the par- 
ish public .schools and by dint of hard 
application to his studies received 
the best of what advantages were af- 
forded by the schools of his district. 

He is a practical farmer, and has 
made a success of his calling. He 
served his constituents in the ca- 
pacity of police juror from 1900 to 
1908, and from 1912 to 1914, and was 
the presiding official during seven 
years of this time. In January, 191.'), 
he was elected to fdl the unexpired 
term of Mr. W. S. Rownd, in the 
House of Representatives, and was 
again re-elected in 1916. His uncle, 
Mr. n. Starns, was sheriff of the par- 
ish for many years. Another uncle, 
Mr. P. Starns, was parish recorder 
for years, while his grandfather, Mr. 
John Kinchcn, was a member of the 




|{|:P. JOHN S. ( \UI{()I„ 
Sabine Parish. 

John S. Car. oil, who comes to the 
House as a member from Sabine par- 
ish, is a farmer and has always tak'-n 
a lively interest in the agricultural 
welfare of his parish and State, lie 
was born in Sabine, La., June 15, 
18r)y, and has lived in that community 
all his life. In 1882 he was married to 
Miss E. A. Miller, daughter of 
A. Miller, and settled down to 
farming. He was elected to the office 
of justice of the peace, is a notary 
public, and has served for a number 
of years as a school director, a posi- 
tion to which he gives much time and 
attention. 

In fraternal circles Mr. Carroll iw a 
member of Lodge No. 236, F. and X. 
M., of his native town. He has a num- 
ber of ideas with regard to educa- 
tional and agricultural subjects which 
his colleagues will be apprised of 
during the present session, and his 



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Moberly, La., where he has lived since 
1906. He was educated in the public 
schools and as soon as he became a 
young man became actively engaged 
in the lumber business. In the last 
election he was selected by the people 
of his parish to represent them in the 
Louisiana State Legislature in the 
House of Representatives. 

In 190.5 he was married to Miss 
Ednah Whidden, daughter of George 
F. Whidden, and they are living in 
Moberly. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic order. 




REP. E. D. THERIOT, 
Terrebonne Parish. 

Eloi Denis Theriot, who represents 
the Parish of Terrebonne, is a Pro- 
gressive. He was elected to the 
House on that ticket, and believes in 
such State and national policies as 
will conserve the interests of his con- 
stituents. He is a merchant and is 
interested in the sugar cane indus- 
try, which are live topics in South- 
ern Louisiana, and he comes of good 
old Louisiana stock, which needs not 
to give reasons for its conduct. 

Mr. Theriot was born at Houma, 
La., April 28, 1868, but removed to 
Gibson, La., in 1901, where he now 
resides. He received his education at 



the public and private schools near 
his home ,and attended "St. Mary's". 
His first work was in the pursuit of 
agriculture, particularly the raising 
of sugar cane, in which he has been 
successful. Mr. Theriot's family has 
performed its full service to the State 
and to the nation. His father, Au- 
guste Theriot, was a Confederate vet- 
eran of the Civil War, and his grand- 
father, Eloi Theriot, whose name the 
present Representative bears, fought 
in the war of 1812, having been one 
of the country's defenders in the bat- 
tle of New Orleans. 

The Representative from Terrebon- 
ne has not taken a prominent position 
as an office seeker. His present posi- 
tion as a member of the House is the 
first State office which he has held, 
and he has never sought local favors 
at the hands of his constituents, but 
the issues which were at stake in his 
district the past year have caused 
him to take a deep interest in the 
upbuilding of South Louisiana's chief 
agricultural industry and sugar or its 
interests have no warmer friend on 
the floor of the Assembly. 




REP. HARRISON JORDAN, 
Richland Parish. 

Dr. Harrison Jordan, a member of 



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the House from Richland parish, is 
one of the few members of the med- 
ical profession to seek political pre- 
ferment. He is a native of his dis- 
trict, having been born and reared in 
Richland parish, with which he is in- 
timately acquainted. 

Dr. Jordan's grandparents came to 
Louisiana as among the first settlers 
in Richland and Morehouse parishes, 
and followed the varying fortunes of 
that agricultural section from their 
earliest development. His grandfather, 
Dr. Harrison Jordan, was elected to 
the House in the fall of 1870, and 
served a shoi-t time in the Legisla- 
ture, dying while still at work. War- 
moth, the carpet-bag governor, held 
the position of chief executive and 
Oscar Dunn was lieutenant govern- 
or. The latter was a real black negro, 
but by far a better man than War- 
moth. The Legislature at that time 
met in New Orleans. His maternal 
grandfather, Dr. T. P. Harrison, was 
a member of the Legislature during 
the years 1865, 1866 and 1868. He was 
a member of the Black and Tan con- 
stitutional convention of 1868, and 
was one of those loyal souls who 
labored to uphold the dignity of his 
State. 

. Dr. Jordan attended the public 
schools of his native community and 
of New Orleans. At the early age of 
15 he was admitted to the Louisiana 
State University, being among the 
most youthful members , who have 
succeeded in passing the required 
tests. He also attended Tulane Uni- 
versity, graduating with the re- 
nowned class of 1896, and Sewanee, 
later securing his degree from the 
medical department and returning to 
his native community to begin the 
practice of medicine. 

While in the Louisiana State Uni- 
versity he was a classmate of Colonel 
Ruffin G. Pleasant, and the acquaint- 
ance thus created formed a friendship 
which has endured throughout subse- 
quent years. Through his selection as 
one of the lawmakers he is again as- 
sociated with his former classmate, 
both of whom hail from North Lou- 
isiana. 




REPRESENTATIVE T. E. BENNET. 
Washington Parish. 

Peter the Hermit thought that the 
right way to serve God and to win 
eternal salvation was to spend his life 
in isolation, out of contact with life 
and life's problems. The Rev. Bennet 
believes that the correct way to serve 
the Master is in the affairs of life and 
with the multitudes who are hurrying, 
with trembling, blind feet, towards 
death. This is the difference between 
the ecclesiastic of the fourteenth cen- 
tury and of the twentieth century. 
Representative Bennet was born Oct. 
22, 1865, in Tangipahoa Parish and 
moved to his present address — Frank- 
linton, La. — in the month of Decem- 
ber, 1887. Mr. Bennet was married 
in 1898 to Miss M. L. Keaton, daugh- 
ter of B. R. Keaton, of Rio, La. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of his native parish and has 
never attended college, but he has 
done a great deal of reading and is 
practically self-educated. Education 
received in the school of experience 
comes slow, but, after all, it is the 
only kind that functions in the life of 
today. He first began life as a farm- 
er and then entered the ministry. He 
is now, consequently, both farmer and 
minister. 

He was a Eepresentative froin 



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Washington Parish from 1896 to 1904 
and was electe<l again in 1916. With 
eight years of legislative experience 
and a man of high moral character, he 
is one of the leaders in the House, 
where he always stands for those 
principles which have actuated his life 
since he began to serve the Master. 
Always it is a pleasure to find such 
men in the lawmaking bodies of our 
liand. Fraternally he is a Mason, a 
Woodman and an Eastern Star. 




REP. LOUIS ANTOINE MORESI, 
Iberia Parish. 

Of a jovial, happy disposition and 
possessing the open-hearted manners 
of the South, Representative Moresi 
is easily one of the most popular men 
in the legislative halls, with his fel- 
low-members, and with the laymen. 
Even in his hours of deepest trials, 
he meets you with a smile on his face 
and with a handclasp which gives 
yours a firm, hearty shake, and you 
feel that he is indeed glad to see you. 
He was born on December 18, 1862, of 
Swiss ancestry on his paternal side, 
and of French-German ancestry on 
his maternal side. His father came 
from Switzerland to New York in the 



same year that the first steamship 
crossed the Atlantic, but he came 
over in a sailing vessel, he was two 
months on the journey. 

Mr. Moresi married Miss Celestine 
M. Bouvier, daughter of Joseph Bou- 
vier, Franklin, Louisiana. His people 
were pioneers in the Teche country, 
coming there in 18.52. He has spent 
all of his life in the town where he 
was bom, Jeanerette, and has filled 
the following offices there: Alder- 
man, mayor, for a long number of 
years; police jury, and president of 
this Parish legislative body; member 
of the Drainage boards, and has been 
in the Legislature since 1912. 

He was educated in private schools 
by tutors ^f national '-PDutation, and 
has a fine education. He is well versed 
in the needs of Louisiana and is al- 
ways found on the right side of pub- 
lic questions. He is a business man, 
being president and general manage)' 
of a large foundry, known as the Mo- 
resi Foundry and Machine Shops, now 
located at Jeanerette, Louisiana, and 
which is still in operation, being one 
of the largest in the State of Louis- 
iana. 




REP. JOS. KANTZ, 
Orleans Parish. 



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REPRESENTATIVE CONRAD MEYER, JR. 
Orleans Palish. 

Conrad Meyer, Jr., is the youngest member of the New Orleans delegation in 
the House, but is rapidly making a place for himself among the influential 
leaders of that influential delegation. He was born in New Orleans on Octo- 
ber 26, 1893, and passed his entire life in the city. First attending the city 
schools, he entered Tula-ne University, from which he graduated June 3, 1915, 
as a member of the law class, and immediately took up the practice of law. 

FrwiLthe nature of their calling, it is but natural that lawyers should make 
up a majority of the membership of the State's law-making body, but it is 
seldom that an attorney is accorded that recognition within a year of his grad- 
uation. This honor came to Mr. Meyer, however, for when the campaign 
opened in 1916 he was elected as the candidate of his party in his home dis- 
trict, and became the successful aspirant, being duly qualified as a legislator, 
kss than a year following graduation, and several months before he reached 
his twenty-third birthday. He resides at number 1539 Dublin Street, New 
Orleans, and with the excellent beginning which he has made, his future pros- 
pects are bright for a brilliant future. 



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REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES F. LABARRE, 

Orleans Parish. 

Charles F. Labarre, who resides at No. 1440 Galvez Street, Seventh Ward 
of New Orleans, is representing his native city for the second term in the 
I'resent session. He was born in New Orleans and has lived there all his 
life. Educated at the public and parochial schools and at Jesuits' College, 
his training and work have been entirely of the city. Early turning his at- 
tention to politics he became recognized as a leader of Democracy, and in 
1912 was elected to the General Assembly. The next year he was chosen a 
member of the Constitutional Convention and served in that body which was 
called for emergency relief. When the campaign came up for selection of dele- 
gates to the proposed constitutional convention of 1915 the constituents whom 
he had represented in the House turned to Mr. Labarre as their choice and he 
was again selected to sit in the convention, but its later defeat made that ser- 
vice unnecessary. Mr. Labarre has always been a stanch Democrat and is 
closely allied with the organization in city and State. He is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity and the Choctaw Club, and is well known in social and 
fraternal circles of his home city. 



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REPRESENTATIVE S. A. PARLANQUE, 
Orleans Parish. 

Mr. Parlanque was born in New Orleans in 187.5, but was reared in Mis- 
sissippi and returned to the State some eighteen years ago and has since thea 
hved in New Orleans. He lives at 608 Scott Street, where has a beautiful 
and tastefully fuinished home. He was married in 1900 to Miss D. E. Mullen, 
daughter of James Mullen, of New Orleans. 

The subject of this paper was educated in the public schools and early showed 
the traits of character and disposition that mprk the business man, so at an 
early age he launched out in the lumber-exporting business, at which he con- 
tinues to confine his attention. Beginning with a small capital, but with the 
spirit that nerved Columbus when he sought the land of India and braved un- 
known seas to get there, the energy of the empire-builder, and the honesty of 
Honest Abe, he felt no quakes or qualms and soon built up a business and a 
reputation for business integrity which have brought him all the work he can 
very well handle. 

He is a Mason, a Shriner and an Odd Fellow. He stands high in these or- 
ganizations in the United States. Mr. Parlanque is a descendant of one of the 
old families of France who settled in New Orleans some sixty years ago. He 
possesses the vivacious intellect of the Paris gentleman and is fast winning 
friends in the law-making body of Louisiana. 



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REPRESENTATIVE T. V. BERRY, 
Kranklin Parish. 

T. V. Berry, representing the Parish of Franklin in the House of Represen- 
tatives, was born in Winnsboro, Louisiana, on August 4, 1887, and has been a 
resident of that town all of his life. He attended the public schools of Winns- 
boro, graduating from the Winnsboro High School on May 31, 1903. He en- 
tered Louisiana State University in September, 1904, where he continued his 
studies for two years. Knowing that a commercial course would be of bene- 
fit to him in his life's work, he entered Soule's Business College of New Or- 
leans, in 1900. In 1909 he entered the Louisiana State University Law School 
finishing in May, 1911, and being admitted to the bar on June 6, 1911. He lo- 
cated in his native town, and formed a partnership with his father, C. L. Berry. 
In 1912 he was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1916 he was re- 
elected for one more term. 

On September 10, 1911, Mr. Berry married Miss Margaret M. Adams, the 
daughter of W. H. Adams, of Winnsboro. Fraternally he belongs to the Ma- 
sons, Knights of Pythias, 1. O. O. F. and the Woodmen of the World, Grand 
Consistory of Louisiana. 



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]PRESENTATIVE JOHN D. NIX. 
Orleans Parish. 





Repreoentative Nix was born September 25, 1890, in Denver, Colorado, and 
/noved to New Orleans in 1892. He was married to Miss Marie Melodia Barker 
r,n January 14, 1914. Miss Barker was a daughter of the late Frank L. Barkei- 
prominent as a sugar planter, and in the social and political circles of ..he 
Crescent City, 

Mr. Nix attended the public schools of New Orleans, and after graduating 
from the Boys' High School in 1907, he entered Tulane University, where he 
graduated with the Bachelor of Law degree, in 1910, and immediately entered 
upon the practice of law, and now has a large and lucrative business. He was 
elected to the Legislature in 1912, and re-elected in 1916. He was a member 
of the Constitutional Convention in 191.3, and of the proposed convention of 
1915. 

At the Boys' High School, Mr. Nix was president of the senior class, editor- 
in-chief of the Old Gold and Purple, the school publication, at Tulane University 
he took an active interest in athletics and played guard on Tulane's football 
team. Winning the respect and admiration of the student body of Tulane and 
the respect of the faculty of the school, he was elected secretary of the Tulane 
Athletic Association. 

With the fraternities he is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma. There are 
only two men of this fraternity in the Legislature, and one in the Senate. 



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REPRESENTATIVE GRUNDY COOPER, Rapides Parish. 

Mr. Grundy Cooper was born in Rapides parish, July 27, 1878 and has lived 
in that locality all of his life. He was educated in Keachie Male and Female 
College at Keachie, Louisiana, and Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and 
completed the Law Course at Tulane University in the class of 1900. For a 
while he was a clerk in a cotton office, but following the family trend, he soon 
went back to farming, during later years devoting his time largely to live-stock. 
He has been successful in his occupation. 

Mr. Cooper is a son of the late Ben Cooper, who was a native of Bardstown, 
Nelson County, Kentucky, and Mrs. Sarah Ann Cooper, who was a native of 
Pineville, Louisiana. That Mr. Cooper is held in high esteem by his fellow- 
citizens is easily realized when you know that this is the beginning of his third 
term in the legislature, having served in 1908 and in 1912, and he is undoubted- 
ly one of the able and patriotic leaders of the House. Mr. Cooper is a man of 
convictions and during the last campaign he put up a strenuous battle for 
Democracy in the parish of Rapides, and was one of those who lead the jiarty 
to victory in the general election. 

He married Miss Alice Neal, July 27, 191", who is the daughter of a very 
pi'ominent Louisianian, the late Mitchell Neal of Rapides parish. He is now 
hving in their home on R. F. D. No. 3, Alexandria, Louisiana. 



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REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES ARION BYRNE. 
Orleans Parish. 

Charles Arion Byrne, representing the Parish of Orleans in the House of 
Representatives, was born in New Orleans on September 5, 1872, where he 
has been living all his life. Mr. Byrne was educated in the public schools of 
the city and Immaculate Conception College, from which he was graduated 
with the degrees of A. B. and A. M. He early availed himself of a commer- 
cial education, and while holding a position as cashier of the Equitable Life 
Insurance Company in his native city was court stenographer. He studied law 
at Tulane University, and was graduated from the institute in 1906. He is 
a practicing attorney at law in the city of New Orleans, where he has succeed- 
ed in building up a large and lucrative practice. Mr. Byrne was elected to 
the Constitutional Convention of 1915, by an enthusiastic and admiring con- 
stituency. During the administration of Governor Hall he was a member of 
the Legislative Investigating Committee. His merit as a lawyer and as a 
statesman is so well recognized by his fellow-citizens that he has been elected 
without opposition for three times to the House of Representatives, where he 
is now serving his third term as leader of the Orleans delegation. 

In April, 1902, Mr. Byrne married Miss Maixella O'Connor, the daughter of 
Joseph O'Connor and Alice McGuire, who was educated in and graduated from 
Dominican Convent of New Orleans. Fraternally Mr. Byrne is very well 



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known, belonging to several organizations, including the Elks, C. C. ami W. 
Club, and the Choctaw Club of his native city. 

Mr. Byrne is a staunch friend of the people, and is always to be found help- 
ing to lead Democracy to victory. He is but forty-four years of age, full of 
life, and energy, a good mixer, and a man who is destined to rise high 




REPRESEN^TATIVE CHESTER H. FOLKS. 
West Feliciana Parish. 

Mr. Chester H. Folks is serving his third term in the lower house and has 
brought with him the vast business and political experience gathered in con- 
ducting successfully his large plantations in West Feliciana Parish and other 
business interests. He has been elected to many offices by the people of his 
parish. He has been a member of the Parish School Board and is now serving 
his third term in the House of Representatives. He takes a deep interest in 
the welfare of his parish, is a stanch Democrat and one of the main opponents 
of the Progressive party in the last election, and fought with all his influence 
and energy for the election of the State Democratic ticket. Mr. Folks is mar- 
ried, his wife being the daughter of Dr. Green Davis, and they have a number 
of children to grace their home at Star Hill, West Feliciana Parish. He is a 
member of the following fraternal organizations: Knights Templar, Masons, 
Knights of Pythias and the Redmen. 



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WILLIAM A. BISSO, 
Parish of Orleans. 

Mr. Bisso was born in- New Orleans, La., on Aug. 4, 1875, the son of iJoseph 
p.nd Mary Bisso, the former of whom was a. native of Grenoble, -France, and 
the latter of Spanish and Italian descent. Hi.s father came to America when 
about 10 years of age and first settled in New Orleans, but later went to Plaque- 
mine, La., where he learned the trrde of blacksmith and horseshoer. When 
the Civil War occurred he tendered his service to the Confederate States and 
entered the navy as water-tender and served throughout the war with credit, 
frequently being commended for his bravery, and was several times promoted 
on deck. At the close of the war he received an honorable discharge and was 
engaged as a lumberman by the Fischer Lumber Company. After five years 
in their employ he entered the timber business on his own capital, at which 
he continued until 1891. Succeeding this he became interested in the towing 
and ferry business, at which he was engaged at the time of his death. The 
.'•on, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest of the boys and has sp-?nt 
his entire life in New Orleans. 

He was educated in the public schools of New Orleans, graduating from Mc- 
Donogh School No. 14, and after this he attended the night school of Soule's 
Business College, while at the same time he was engaged as an engineer doin;; 



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survey work for the United States Government in the Fourth District. He 
worked at this for over three years and was offered promotion at a much 
larger salary if he would continue in the work. But he engaged as a pilot on 
the Walnut Street and Westwego ferry for three years more, learning the 
river business from the start. Then he bought a tug and engaged with hi.s 
father in the towing business. From that time to this he has been actively 
identified with that business, and after his father's death he became president 
of the Bisso Towboat Company, an organization chartered under the laws 
of Louisiana. In 1908 he organized the New Orleans Coal Company and was 
made president of it. This company deals exclusively in coal for steamers 
and boats, practically all of the supplies coming direct from Alabama coal fields. 
Mr. Bisso is a member of the Catholic Church and takes an active interest 
in church work, giving largely to charity and for the support of destitute 
children. He is a member of the Elks and ranks high in that organization. 
Besides this he is a member of the Board of Trade and the Association cf 
Commerce. He has always been a Democrat and has accepted without ques- 
tioning the dictates of his party, which owes sc. much to him both locally and 
in the State. Mr. Bisso aids and helps Mayor Rehrman in his work of reform 
and his constructive legislation. 




KK1'K1;m;M ATIVE T. SAMBOLA JONES, 



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REPRESENTATIVE COLONEL T. SAMBOLA JONES. 
East Baton Rouge Parish. 

Colonel T. Sambola Jones, the son of Thomas Spec and Eliza Perkins 
(Perry) Jones. Colonel Jones received his early education at Centenary Col- 
lege at Jackson, graduating from the college in 1878, with the degree of Bache- 
lor of Arts and Master of Arts. He then entered Tulane University, graduat- 
ing from its law school in 1880, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Colonel 
Jones is well known as a public speaker, possessing a pleasing personality and 
a fine oratorical delivery. He served as Superintendent of Schools of East 
Baton Rouge Parish from 1882 till 1886, when he became editor of the State 
Journal. He was owner and editor of the Louisiana Educator from 1888 -.o 
1892. With one exception Colonel Jones has served on the staff of every Gov- 
ernor since 1888. He was private secretary to Governor M. J. Foster the great- 
er part of his two terms. He has served in many public capacities. In 1904 
he was Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition. He was judge of the In- 
ferior Criminal City Courts of Baton Rouge for ten years, resigning from this 
office. He was Commissioner at Large to the Panama-Pacific International 
Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. He ran for Congress from the Sixth 
Congressional District in 1912, but was defeated in a three-cornered race with 
Lewis L. Morgan and Ferd C. Claiborne. Colonel Jones was one of the three 
organizers of the Louisiana Chatauqua, which was created in 1888. 

In 1885 Colonel Jones married Miss Deborah Spencer, the daughter of Chief 
Justice Spencer, of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (now deceased). Colonel 
Jones is living with his wife and family at 608 Third Street. 




REP. W. CARRUTH JONES, 
East Baton Rouge Parish. 

W. Carruth Jones was born Oct. 25, 
1876, at Jackson, East Feliciana Par- 
ish, La., and is the son of Dr. John 
Welch Jones and Amarintha Huff 



Jones. He was educated in private 
schools, the Louisiana State Univer- 
sity, Centenary College of Louisiana 
and was graduated from Tulane Law 
School in New Orleans with the class 
of 1902. In April, 1903, he located 
in the city of Baton Rouge, where he 
has continuously practiced his profes- 
sion. On Nov. 19, 1908, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Elizabeth Fly Kirkpat- 
rick, the daughter of James Roger 
Kirkpatrick, of McComb, Miss., and 
granddaughter of James Fly, promi- 
nent for many years in educational 
affairs of that State. Mr. Jones was 
for several months the City Judge of 
the city of Baton Rouge, and until the 
election could be had to fill a vancancy 
therein. He was elected as one of the 
two Representatives from the Parish 
of East Baton Rouge in the General 
Assembly of 1916 in a contest where 
five candidates entered, receiving his 
nomination in the first primary. He 
is a Mason, Blue Lodge and Chapter, 
and is likewise a member of Baton 
Rouge Lodge No. 490, B. P. O. of 
Elks, being a Past Exalted Ruler of 
the latter lodge. 



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Representatives from Caddo Parish. 





REP. GEO. G. DIMICK. 



REP. J. S. DOUGLAS. 





REP. P. P. KEITH. 



REP. JOHN McVV. FORD. 



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REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE 
GREGG DIMICK. 

Caddo Parish. 

George Gregg Dimick, Representa- 
tive in the Legislature from Shreve- 
port, has the name of being the small- 
est man in the House, in point of phy- 
sical stature, but his record shows 
that a small package may conceal a 
very active intellect. He was born 
in Marshall, Texas, November 13th, 
1891, Friday, by the way, and he was 
married to Miss Bashie English in 
the year 1913, thus showing that he is 
"hoodoo proof," as far as the popular 
"13" superstition is concerned. He 
removed to his present home in 1898, 
and studied law in the office of Gov- 
erno Blanchard, and Hon. Leon R. 
Smith. When barely 21 years of age 
he Was admitted to the bar. Taking 
up the practice of law, he soon ac- 
quired a lucrative clientele and in 1914 
was appointed city attorney of 
Shreveport, which position he holds 
at the present time. He is one of the 
youngest members of the House for 
the present session, and with the 
ground already gained, his prospects 
are bright for a brilliant political fu- 
ture. 

Mr. Dimick is active in social af- 
fairs, being a member of the most ex- 
clusive clubs of his native city, includ- 
ing the Cotilion Club and Shreveport 
Golf and Country Club. He is also a 
member of the Shreveport Lodge of 
Woodmen of the World. He has ar- 
ranged a permanent home in the 
North Louisiana city, and for some 
years prior to his marriage, made his 
home with his step-father, Mr. John 
M. Tucker, one of the substantial capi- 
talists of the Northern section of this 
State. Some of the most important 
problems of the new administration 
will come up for solution from his 



home district, and Mr. Dimick has en- 
tered actively upon his work, with a 
view to serving his constituents in a 
satisfactory manner, when the occas- 
ion shall arise. He has already made 
many friends in the State capital, and 
his constituents predict that he will 
"make good," as a lawmaker, in the 
same energetic manner already shown 
in the conduct of his legal work. 



REP. McWILLIAMS FORD, 
Caddo Parish. 

John McWillianis Ford, one of the 
representatives from Caddo parish in 
the General Assembly, is a business 
man from a business man's community. 
He was born in Shreveport, La.. Feb. 
1.5, 1880 and has spent his life in that 
growing city, aiding in the develop- 
ment of what is now the second larg- 
est municipality in the State. After 
attending the public schools of Shreve- 
port, he entered Sewanee preparatory 
school, later graduating from the Un- 
iversity of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 
Returning to his native city he en- 
tered into the banking business 
which he followed for several years. 
With the increased importance of 
North Louisiana parishes in all lines 
of agriculture, came opportunities for 
developing the marketing facilities of 
farm products and Mr. Ford interest- 
ed himself in the grain mill and ele- 
vator business, in which he is occu- 
pied at the present time. 

He has taken an active interest in 
politics and is recognized in the coun- 
cils of the Democratic party. He was 
chosen as a member of the Shreve- 
l>ort City Council under its old form 
of government and has also served as 
a member of the Caddo Parish Police 
July. Election to the State Legisla- 
ture follows as a tribute of local ser- 
vice well rendered in city and parish. 

Mr. Ford is a member of the Mason- 
ic Fraternity, Scottish Rite, Knight 
Templar, Shrine and the Veiled 
Prophet. A member of the Rotary 
Club and other local organizations, he 
is prominent in the social life of his 
home community and is making many 
friends at the State Capitol. 



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REPRESENTATIVE P. P. KEITH. 
Caddo Parish. 

Georgia born, October 1.5, 1847, and 
a Louisianian by adoption is Mr. 
Perry Keith, Representative from Cad- 
do Parish, of Keithville, Louisiana. 
Mr. Keith came to Louisiana with his 
parents when he was three months of 
age, and settled at Keithville, where 
he has since resided. He was mar- 
ried in 1871, to Miss Narcissa Miller, 
daughter of I. W. Miller, Keithville. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of the parish of his adoption, 
and at an early age engaged in busi- 
ness for himself, as a farmer and 
merchant. He continues to devote his 
time to these occupations. 

Mr. Keith has served for several 
years on the School Board of his par- 
ish, and the beautiful school buildings 
of Caddo and its efficient corps of 
teachers is due partly to his ardent 
co-operation with the superintendent. 
He has since then been president of 
the police jury, and has been a mem- 
ber of the House for the past four 
years. He was re-elected in 1916. 

He is a Mason, Scottish Rite, Shrin- 
er, W. O. W. and a Moose. He is a 
Democrat and has always voted that 
ticket. Coming from the home parish 
of Governor Pleasant, he is an ardent 
supporter of the administration. 



REPRESENTATIVE J. H. DOUGLAS 
Caddo Parish. 

J. H. Douglas, representative from 
Dixie, Caddo Parish, La., is a con- 
spicuous example of the "self-made 
man." He was born at Mansfield, 
La., July 29, 1876, and removed to 
Dixie in 1897, where he has since re- 
sided. In 1900 he was married to 
Miss Blanche Birdwell, daughter of 
John Birdwell, of Benton, La., and has 
spent his active years in developing 
business interests in Caddo Parish. 

In 1897 Mr. Douglas began life as 
a farm hand, chopping cotton on the 
plantation, but one year later secured 



a position as clerk in a country store, 
that stepping stone to success, which 
has elevated many a young man to 
opportunities for making money. 
Three years later he began merchan- 
dizing for himself, and planted cotton 
in conjunction with his store keeping, 
with marked success. This business 
was so satisfactory that Mr. Douglas 
was soon able to take up gas prop- 
erties in and about his home, which 
have since proven most profitable, and 
have contributed most substantially to 
the development of the great Caddo 
field. He is now president of the 
Douglas & Sentell Company, which 
does a large business in general mer- 
chandise and cotton; the Red River 
Gas Company and the State Bank of 
Belcher, La. The Douglas real estate 
holdings are large, and require much 
attention, but this busy lawmaker 
finds time to serve as secretary of the 
North Caddo Drainage District and 
conducts a general contracting busi- 
ness. He is a developer of natural 
resources, whose business energies are 
well illustrated by the simple fact 
that he was able to rise from "farm 
hand to bank president," in the short 
space of seventeen years. No better 
commentary upon the opportunities 
for young men in Louisiana could be 
offered, and this successful busines.-; 
man is of the opinion that equal op- 
portunities exist at the present time 
for any youth of industry and pluck. 



REP. LEROY A. STAFFORD, 
Rapides Parish. 

Leroy A. Stafford, representing the 
Parish of Rapides in the State House 
of Representatives, was born in Che- 
neyville. La., Nov. 21, 1869, and is 
now living in Alexandria, the county 
seat of the parish he is representing. 
He was educated in the public schools 
of Rapides Parish and at the United 
States Naval Academy, from which in- 
stitution he graduated in 1888. Since 
1892 Mr. Stafford has been engaged in 
mercantile pursuits. 

Feb. 9, 1893, he was married to 
Miss Bettie M. Hyams, the daughter 
of K. Hyams and Emma J. Moore. 



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EDWARD J. GAY, Represrntattive, Iberville Parish. 

Edward J. Gay is serving his fourth term in the Louisiana State Legislature 
in the House of Representatives, and was selected chairman of the most im- 
portant committee in the House, the ways and means committee. He is a type 
of the clean and enterprising rural legislator with the will and determination 
to do what is best. For many years the Gay family has been prominent in 
the political and financial affairs of the State. The present young representa- 
tive is a son of the late Andrew H. Gay, who was one of the prominent sugar 
planters of Louisiana and a man who always took great interest in the de- 
velopment and welfare of his State. 

Mr. Gay was educated at Princeton University, and previous to that had 
taken preparatory courses in Pantops Academy and at Lawrenceville, N. J. 
Upon his return home to Plaquemine he devoted himself to his family's sugar 
interests and has engaged in agricultural affairs since. He is president of the 
Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association. 

On Dec. 1, 1909 he was married to Miss Gladys Fennner, daughter of Judge 
Chas. E. Fenner, of New Orleans, La., and they have a beautiful home on the 
St. Louis plantation near Plaquemine, where they have been residing since they 
were married. Mr. Gay is blesssed with three happy children. 

Mr. Gay was born in 1878 in Iberville parish. In 1908 he represented his 
congressional district in the National Democratic Convention in St. Louis. 



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REPRESENTATIVE JAMES O. STEWART. Calcasieu Parish. 

The youngest member of the Legislature is the Representative from the 
Empire parish. He is just 22 years of age, but he has the wisdom of a grand- 
father and the eloquence of a Demosthenes and the ability of winning friends 
second only to William Jennings Bryan, who is his favorite for a man of prin- 
ciple and purity of character. Young Stewart was born in the Parish of Cal- 
casieu in 1894 and is unmarried. He lives near his birthplace and the people 
who took him on their knees when he wore short pants elected him Repre- 
sentative over some of the shrewdest men in political life in that parish. 

He is a graduate of the Lake Charles High School and has attended several 
summer sessions at Louisiana State University and Tulane University. He 
intends to enter Louisiana State University this coming fall — 1916 — and take 
law and practice law as soon as he will have graduated. He cast his first vote 
for himself, which few men have the pleasure of doing that early in life. 

Mr. Stewart is of a jovial disposition, is a favorite with the professors and 
students of the State University and is a young man developing into a great 
Xiublic speaker. It is a pleasure and argues well for the future to see young 
men of this type taking an active interest in politics, for it means that politics 
must come out on and stay on a high plane. A bright future awaits this young 
man from the prairies of South Louisiana. 



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REPRESENTATIVE J. OMER BROUSSARD. 
Lafayette Parish. 

Mr. J. Omer Broussard is one of a numerous family of Broussards that came 
to Louisiana about 176.5 from Nova Scotia. His ancestors, having been deported 
from Grandpre, Acadia, and dumped on the shore of Maryland by the EnglisTi, 
were seven years traveling through undeveloped America to the Teche country 
of Louisiana, where they settled. 

Mr. Broussard's ancestor, Garrheph Broussard, was commissioned captain 
commandant of the Acadians, who located in the Alakapos district, by Charles 
Philippe Aubrey, Governor of the Province of Louisiana, said commission being 
dated April 8, 1765. 

The present subject of this sketch was born on Jan. 15, 1847, :at Lafayette, 
and has lived there all his life. On Nov. 13, 1878, he was married to Clemence 
Labbe, daughter of Cesaire Labbe, was rendered a widower by the death of 
his wife and was married again on Dec. 12, 1915, to Miss Rosa Roy, daughter 
of D. Roy, of Youngville, La. 

Mr. Broussard's occupation in Lafayette is that of farmer and merchant, 
besides taking an intense interest in political, social and financial affairs of 
the State. Under the administration of Governor NichoUs he was appointed 



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Justice of the Peace, and was postmaster of Pilette, La., under Presidents 
Cleveland and McKinley. 

One of the most interesting historical documents is the following authentic 
commission, issued to his great ancestor, Mr. J. Omer Broussard, by the King of 
France, in the year 176.5, making him the commander of the Acadians, who 
came to Louisiana in 176.5, and establishing the virtue, wisdom and courage of 
the commander. We recommend that all of our readers read this very interest- 
ing historical document, which is so bound up with the history of Louisiana: 

AGENCE CONSUTAIRE DE P RANGE A BATON ROUGE. 

(Translation). 

COMMISSION AS CAPTAIN OF MILITIA FOR ONE GAURHEPT 

BROUSSARD, SURNAMED "GLORIOUS SUN." 

BY Charles Phillip Audry, a Knight of the Royal and Military Order of St. 
Louis, for the KING in the Province of Louisiana. 

In view of the evidences of valor, fidelity and attachment to the service of 
the KING, which the said GAURHERT BROUSSARD, surnamed "Glorious 
Sun," an Acadian, has given on various occasions, and the honorable mentions 
which the Marquis of Vaudreuil and other Governor Generals of Canada have 
accorded him in consideration of his wounds and courage of which he has given 
authentic proof in numerous instances against the enemies of his MAJESTY; 

We constitute him a Captain of Militia and commander of the Acadians that 
came with him from England and who are to establish themselves on die 
lands of the Atakapas, never doubting that he will acquit himself with the 
same zeal and the same fidelity in the service of the KING and being pursuaded 
that he will always show to his fellow-citizens a good example of Wisdom, 
Virtue, Religion and attachment to his Prince. 

We therefore enjoin the said Acadian citizens to obey him and to agree to 
all that he commands in the service of the KING, under pain of disloyalty. 

We command the officers of the troops maintained in that Province to rec- 
ognize and receive the said GAURHEPT BROUSSARD, surnamed "Glorious 
Sun," in the capacity of Captain commanding the Acadians who will establish 
themselves on the lands of the Atapakas and by all wherever he may go. 

In testimony whereof we have signed these presents, affixed our seal, and 
had the same countersigned by our Secretary at our hotel in New Orleans on 
the Eighth Day of April, 176.5. 

(Signed) ^l AUDRY. 

By Monsiegneur Soubie. 
No. 43,344. 

For Gaurhept Broussard, surnamed "Glorious Sun." 

Filed this 19th day of August, 1912, and recorded same date in book of 
Miscellaneous Act F-4 at Page 243. 

(Original Signed) F. K. HOPKINS, Dy. Clerk of Court. 

I hereby certify the above to be a true and correct copy of the original on 
file and of record in my office. 

(Seal) J. GILBERT ST. JULIEN, 

Clerk of Court. 
A true translation of the original from the French. 

J. ST. CLAIR FAVROT, 
French Consular Agent, 
(Seal) Baton Rouge, La. 

June 13th, 1916. 



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WILLIAM V. SEEBER. 
Representative Orleans Parish. 

September 20, 1880, was born William V. Seeber, Representative from 
the Ninth Ward of Orleans Parish, in the city of New Orleans, where he 
has continued to reside, being very well pleased with the location that the 
stork picked out for him. Mr. Seeber married Miss Corine Lateyte, Ope- 
lousas, Louisiana, in 190.5. 

He received his secondaray education in the public and private schools 
of New Orleans, and then graduated from the law department of TuIaTie 
University. He began doing clerical work upon his graduation, but soon 
went into law practice, at which he is now actively engaged. Mr. Seeber 
was a member of the Legislature from 1902 to 1904, and was the youngest 
member in the House at that time. He resigned to become official city 
notary for the city of New Orleans, in which capacity he continued to serve 
until 1900. 

He is a director of the Whitney-Central Trust and Savings Bank; direc- 
tor and attorney and notary for the Phoenix Building and Homestead Asso- 
ciation in Louisiana, and vice-president of the Louisiana State League of 
Building and Homestead Associations. A business man of the type that 
Louisiana needs. 



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PETER COUGOT. 
Representative Orleans Parish. 

A member of the real estate fraternity is always interested in the agri- 
cultural and industrial development of the State in which he resides, if not 
from a real desire to see his State advance, most real estate men have this 
desire, and especially the subject of this biographical sketch, then for purely 
mercenary motives, for it means that their holdings will advance in value 
and more dollars will be theirs. Mr. Cougot was born in the city of New 
Orleans, in July, 1856, and now resides at 827 North Liberty Street, in that 
city. 

He was educated in the Jesuits College of that city, and began life as 
a clerk for F. A. Gonzales & Brothers of New Orleans, but by thrift and 
dint of saving, along with good investments, he now owns large property 
holdings in New Orleans, and surrounding parts of the State. From 1892 
to 1896 he was president of the Orleans Railway Company, where he served 
with credit to himself and friends. He was a member of the House from 
the Fifth Ward of New Orleans from 1896 to 1900 and was re-elected in 
1916. 

Mr.Cougot is widely known in New Orleans fraternal circles and benefic- 
ient societies. 



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REPRESENTATIVE ACHILLE I. PICARD. 

Ascension Parish. 

One of the Representatives from Ascension Psirish is the young man Achille 
I. Picard, of Gonzales, Louisiana. He was born on March 17, 1882, Ascen- 
sion Paish, and moved to his present address in 1902. He was educated hi 
the Baton Rouge public schools, and took the degree of Bachelor of Science at 
the Louisiana State University. Although a young man he has a large and 
prosperous business in the Parish of Ascension, being both a merchant ant' 
planter. He has been elected to the Legislature by his people for a number 
of terms, and was a member of the Board of Commissioners on the Ponchar- 
train Levee Board. He belongs to a large number of fraternal organizations, 
and is an active member in each, especially the Masons, the Shriners, the 
Elks and the Odd Fellows. He is a worthy citizen, industrious, and a success- 
ful planter of his community. He is well thought of among members of the 
Legislature, and stands high with his constituents. 



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JOHN LUTHER KELLY. M. D., 
Representative, Natchitoches Parish. 

The object to be attained in writing these biographies is to learn something 
of a general and personal nature about our representatives and to give a 
brief sketch of the main items in their lives, so we shall be pardoned if we give 
a minute synopsis of the main episodes in the lives of our characters. 

Dr. John Luther Kelly, the subject of this biography, was born on Aug. 10, 
1882, in Winnfield, La. He is a son of the late Dr. John F. Kelly, of Colfax, 
La., who was a member of the Senate and House from Winn parish during 
the troublesome days of Reconstruction, and that he proved himself a man of 
■courage and prudence is borne out by the fact that his son was sent to the 
State House of Representatives by almost the same people that had voted 
their confidence in his father. A. D. Lafargue, of Avoyelles parish, served in 
the House with the elder Dr. Kelly forty years ago, and now is in the House 
serving with his son. 

Dr. John Luther Kelly, as his title indicates, is a practising physician and 
was graduated from the University of Tennessee, Medical Department, on 
May 31, 1907, and was validictorian of his class. For one year he was an 



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interne at the Memphis City Hospital, from May 31, 1907, to May 31, 1908. He 
attended the public schools of Grant parish, graduating from the Colfax High 
School in 1899. On July 1, 1908, Dr. Kelly married Miss Ethel Thompson, of 
Moiine, 111., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thompson, of Moline, 111., and are 
■now living at Montrose, La. To this union has been born one child, John 
Luther Kelly, Jr., Nov. 30, 1915. 

Dr. Kelly has been somewhat of a traveler, having spent two years in the 
employment of the United States Government in the Philippine Islands, visited 
the Hawaiian Islands, Japan, and has been over nearly all of the United States, 
Dr. Kelly is the secretary of the Simcoe Walmsley Lodge No. 359, Cypress, 
La., of A. F. and A. M. He belongs to the Shreveport Consistory No. 1, and 
to the El Karuba Temple of the Mystic Order of the Shrine of Shreveport, La. 
Besides belonging to the Masonic order, Dr. Kelly is a W. O. W., being Consul 
Commander of Yaupon Camp No. 688, of Montrose, La. 

As a member of the House of Representatives he served on the committee 
of health and quarantine as its chairman. The parish of Natchitoches is in- 
deed fortunate in having so able a man to represent her. 




REP. GEORGE W. JONES. JR., 
West Carroll Parish. 

George W. Jones, Jr., is a Missis- 
sippian by birth, having been born at 
Copiah, Miss., in 1882, but the active 
year:; of his life have been spent in 
Louisiana. In 1904 he was married to 
r/i.-.3 Ji'ckson, daughter of S. T. Jack- 
so r>. cf West Carroll parish, and re- 
moved to Pioneer, in that parish, in 
1912, vhere he now resides. He at- 
tended public school, and later the 



Raymond High School, after which he 
took up the occupation of farming, in 
which he is still engaged. He is much 
interested in the raising of cotton, 
and is one of those who believe that 
this great industry can be brought 
back to its former commanding posi- 
tion by the adoption of proper metti- 
ods. He takes decided issue with some 
of tho experts along this line, open'.y 
advocating the late planting of this 
great staple, in place of the early- 
planting theory of the department. 
With universal adherence to this plan 
Mr. Jones believes that the boll weevil 
would in time become almost harni- 
lefi and millions of dollars added to 
the agricultural wealth of sections in 
which cotton culture has almost be- 
come negligible. He is a believer in 
diversification, but does not think 
cotton growing should be neglected in 
the general plan for increasing the 
production of farms which are we'l 
suited to its culture. He has not been 
an office holder to any great extent, 
but was chosen by a community in 
which agriculture is the predominat- 
ing industry. He is interested in the 
development of the educational system, 
particularly as it applies to the bet- 
terment of agricultural pursuits. It. 
fraternal circles he is a member of 
the Woodmen of the World and the 
Columbian Woodmen, and this is his 
first term as a State lawmaker. 



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REPRESENTATIVE DAVID M. EVANS. 
Madison Parish. 

David M. Evans, of Tallulah, is an able Representative from the Parish of 
Madison in the House of Representatives. He has been honored by the people 
of the northeastern section of the State with many public officers, having been 
elected Representative from Madison Parish in 1898, was district attorney of 
the Ninth Judicial District, composed of the Parishes of Madison and East 
Carroll, and is now a Representative of Madison Parish in the House, this 
being his third term as Representative, and was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention of 1913. In 1914 he was elected as one of the vice presidents of the 
Louisiana Bar Association from the Second Supreme Court District of this 
State. 

After leaving Louisiana State University he became manager of a planta- 
tion, and by using his time to advantage he was able to read law and was 
admitted to the bar. He is now a practicing attorney in the Parish of Madison 
and has a large and profitable clientele, being one of the best-known lawyers 
in the State of Louisiana. 

Mr. Evans is not married, but is living in the town of Tallulah. He belongs 
to the Order of Elks at Vicksburg and the Knights of Pythias, and was twice 



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the chancelloi- commander of Mound Lodge No. 113, Knights of Pythias, at 
Vicksburg. 

Mr. Evans has strict ideas of party adherence and party loyalty,, being a 
stanch Democrat of the old school, believes in a complete separation of parties 
and in carrying out in the general election the full contract entered into in 
the primary of the party. He saw ahead of his party and during the extra 
session of 191.5 successfully had passed in both houses a primary election bill 
which "would separate the ^heep from the goats." It reached the Governor's 
desk, but Governor Hall p^mitted it to die. Mr. Evans is the author of House 
bill No. 251 of 1916, known as the primary election law, and as this article 
is being written the House has just voted on a primary election law and passed 
it with a.-large majority. Mr. Evans made one of the best speeches ever deliv- 
ered in the House of Representatives in favor of the law on June 1.5, 1916, 
explaining its purpose and its effect on the primary election in Louisiana, 
the result of wliich will be to make a complete separation of the "sheep and 
the goats," thereby restoring party regularity and discipline. 

He stands high with the present administration, was a consistent and able 
advocate for the election of the present Governor, with whom he is a close 
personal friend, and was one of the original Pleasant men of the State. His 
parish is well represented. 




REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES A. 
SCHEXNAYDER. 
St. James Parish. 

Although coming from a section of 
Louisiana in which the sugar interests 
play an important part in the occu- 
pation of his constituents, the Repre- 
sentative from St. James Parish, the 
Hon. Charles A. Schexnayder, is a 
Democrat and is identified at all 
times within the bounds of the party, 
rather than working for reforms out- 



side of the Democratic organization. 

He was born in the Parish of St. 
John, not very far from his present 
residence at St. James, and has been 
a planter and manufacturer since he 
took up the serious problenis of life. 
He was educated in the public schools 
of his parish and entered St. Stan- 
islaus College at Bayou St. Louis, 
after which he entered a rnercantile 
establishment as a clerk. Later he 
took up business for himself on a 
plantation in his adopted parish, 
where he established his residence in 
1896. His experience has been that 
of a business man, and in the course 
of his career he has been called upon 
to meet the practical problems with 
which the State of Louisiana is now 
wrestling, and the training thus se- 
cured is proving valuable in his leg- 
islative work, where he is consulted 
in matters of important legislation 
touching the interest of South Gen- 
eral Louisiana, and where he is con- 
tributing in no small matter to con- 
structive legislation in the present 
session. 

In fraternal circles he is affiliated 
with the Masons of his native town 
and takes an active interest in the so- 
cial and business circles of his par- 
ish, throughout which he enjoys a 
very large acquaintance. 



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JOHN M. HAM LEY, 
East Carrol Parish. 

Although real estate men are in closer touch with the matter of land taxes 
and tax valuations than any class of citizens in the State, comparatively few 
from this calling are registered as members of either house in the lawmaking 
body. This year the problems which confront these sessions will be of more 
than usual impoj-tance, as the governor and other State officials have stated 
unequivocally that in oi'der to correct existing evils that the State must have 
more revenue, and to secure revenue a new system of taxation must be devised 
to yield the necessary funds. 

John IMartin Hamley is the exception which proves the rule. He is a live 
member of the real estate fraternity, having had ample experience along that 
line through a business career extending over a number of years in his native 
parish of East Carrrol. He was born Aug. 26, 1883, at Lake Providence, and 
has resided there since his birth. He married Katie Davis Ransdell, daughter 
of Judge Francis Xavier Ransdell, of Lake Providence, Nov. 11, 1914, and con- 
tinues to reside at that place. 

Mr. Hamley was educated in the public schools of Lake Providence and at 
Christian Brother's College, Memphis, Tenn. On his return home he took a 
deep interest in political affairs, being elected to a seat in the City Council, 



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which seat he retained for a period of seven years. He was chosen as East 
Carroll's representative without opposition to the House in 1912, and was 
re-elected during the present year, also without opposition. His ability in 
matters of State-wide interest has been recognized by his colleagues, who 
have intrusted to his care and guidance some of the most important busi- 
ness of the session. He is chairman of the house committee on appropria- 
tions. 




REPRESENTATIVE FRED W. 

PRICE. 

Lincoln Parish. 

Colonel Fred W. Price was born in 
Shelby County, Alabama, in 1849, and 
moved to Ruston, his present address, 
in 1853. Colonel Price has been mar- 
ried three times; first to Miss Anna 
Simms, daughter of Islam Simms, of 
Jackson Parish, Louisiana, in 1875; 
after her death he married, in 1900, 
Mrs. L. M. Kidd, who died in 1910; 
and in July of 1912 he married Mrs. 
Lena Watson Allen of Baton Rouge. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of his parish, until 1868, when 
he attended Homer College, one year 
after which his father sent him to the 
Louisiana State Seminary and Mili- 
tary Institute, afterwards Louisiana 
State University, when it was located 
at Pineville, Louisiana. The night of 
his matriculation in 1869 the buildings 
burned down, and the school was 
moved to Baton Rouge and housed in 
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. He 



graduated from the State University 
in 1873, with the following men who 
have written their names across the 
pages of Louisiana history in letters 
of gold: John Hill, Paul Hebert, Geo. 
Hogue, William van Hook, Milton 
Strickland and Harry Edwards. Col. 
David F. Boyd was then president of 
the institution. 

It was reported that the diplomas of 
graduation were signed by the negro 
Lieutenant Governor, and Colonel 
Price refused to accept him. It is 
now in the archives of the State Uni- 
versity and is signed by Governor Kel- 
logg. Mr. Price would never accept 
his diploma, showing the full red 
blood and Southern spirit of which he 
is the very embodiment. This spirit 
has characterized every action of his 
long and useful life. Few men pos- 
sess the spirit of fairness. Southern 
chivalry, and the other things that 
mark out the Southern man of the old 
type. Long may he live and may his 
tribe of liberty loving people increase. 

After graduation from college. Col. 
Price first began life as a teacher. He 
was professor of mathematics and 
commandant of cadets at the Univer- 
sity of Nashville for the years of '74 
and '75. He then studied law and was 
admitted to practice before the bar 
of Louisiana in his native town of 
Ruston. No lawyer before the bar of 
the State enjoys the practice better 
and no one has a larger host of friends 
than he. 

Mi% Price has been mayor of Ruston 
and a member of the Legislature for 
two sessions. His judgment and 
power are largely sought, and he is 
always found on the right and moral 
side of every question that confronts 
the law makers of this State. He is 
a member of the Baptist Church and 
a leader of the Democratic party in 
his section of the State. 



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REP. EMILE E. VUILLEMOT, 
St. Martins Parish. 

Coming from the land of the Ar- 
cadians, famous in song and story by 
Longfellow's poem, and possessing all 
the characteristics of that famous 
race, Emile Vuillemot, who was born 
at St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Octo- 
ber 3, 1874, is rapidly becoming a fa- 
vorite with the law makers at the 
State Capitol. Descended from a long 
line of Vuillemots of French ancestry, 
he has inherited the powers that make 
that nation leaders of men wherever 
they go. 

Mr. Vuillemot was a beginner in life 
as a clerk in a wholesale dry goods 
store, but not satisfied with the mo- 
notonous life of a clerk, he attended 
the public schools of New Orleans, and 
then went to the Louisiana State Uni- 
versity, where he distinguished him- 
self by his brilliant intellect and man- 
ly disposition. Easily leading all 
others in popularity with the student 
body. 

After leaving the University he was 
deputy assessor of the parish of 
Iberia, and then making so good, he 
was appointed to the position of tax 
collector in the State Auditor's Of- 
fice, which he filled with credit to him- 
self and friends. His friends of St. 



Martins parish elected him to the 
House in 1916, with a large majority, 
where he is serving the interest of 
his State without fear or favor. Of 
such men as he, is Louisiana glad to 
honor, for she honors herself thereby. 
Mr. Vuillemot is a member of the 
Elks, Woodmen of the World, and of 
the Columbia Woodmen. 




REP. A. A. CALONGNE. 

Representative Calongne was born 
in New Orleans, La., on May 30, 1860, 
and has lived there all his life. His 
home is at 1781 Gentilly avenue, where 
he has a very beautiful and well-fur- 
nished home. He was married to Miss 
Cecilia Cook, of Abita Springs, La., in 
January, 1907. 

Mr. Calongne received his second- 
ary education in private schools, at- 
tended Dolbear College in New Or- 
leans, later graduating in law from 
Tulane University. He first engaged 
in the cotton busine&s, but, desiring 
a professional career, he, after grad- 
uating in law, entered the field as an 
attorney before the bar of New Or- 
leans. He is now one of the attor- 
neys for the Public Health Service of 
New Orleans and has always taken an 
active interest in the bettering of his 
town and State. This is his maiden 
term in the House. 



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REP. LEVI LAFAYETTE UPTON 
East Feliciana Parish. 

For twenty years a teacher, train- 
ing the minds and morals of countless 
numbers of youth and retiring to iiib 
farm with the intention of spending 
the i-emainder of his life in quici;, 
away from the turmoil and strife jf 
public life, but solicited by his fellov;- 
citizens to put the harness of publ'.c 
service on again, is the history of 
Representative Upton, of Slaughter, 
La. He was born on Nov. 8, 1853, in 
the State of Georgia, but his parencs 
brought him to Louisiana when he 
was an infant. Mr. Upton has been 
twice married. His first wife was 
Miss Mary Calhoun, daughter of John 
C. Calhoun, and a near relative of the 
g^eat man of that name. His second 
wife was Miss Carrie Bell Morris, 
daughter of W. B. Morris, who for 
seventeen years was mayor of Clin- 
ton. 

Mr. Upton was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native parish, and 
afterwards attended Mount Lebanon 
and Homer Colleges. Mr. Upton has 
taught school for twenty years, and 
during this time was parish superin- 
tendent of Richland parish. During 
his incumbency in the superintendency 
the schools of Richland took a mighty 
stride for usefulness to the people, 



and many improvements were made in 
the personnel of the teachers and thj 
physical plants. He is now the presi- 
dent of the school board at Slaughter, 
la., where a new twenty thousand dol- 
lar brick high school is being erected, 
due partly to the activity of this grand 
old school man. 

For a long number of years he was 
a member of the parish school board 
of East Feliciana. He is the son of 
the Rev. Thomas J. and Mrs. Bettie 
Upon. The father was a minister of 
great power in the M. E. Church, 
South, Louisiana Conference. 

Mr. Upton has a nice home, wed 
equipped with most of the conveni- 
ences, and with his fine herd of Jersey 
cattle he expects to spend his remain- 
ing days in peace. He is a firin friend 
of all laws that have for their pur- 
pose the social betterment of Louisi- 
ana. 




REP. TLM L. SORRELLS, 

Caldwell Parish. 

Louisiana, the garden spot of the 
universe, shows that she appreciates 
her farmers and cattle men by honor- 
ing them with positions in her law- 
making bodies. Mr. Sorrells was born 
in Catahoula Parish, on October 14th, 
1876, and moved to Clark, Louisiana, 



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his present address, in September, 
1905. On August 10, 1906, he mar- 
ried Miss Pauline, the charming 
daughter of Hon. H. B. Thompson, 
who is one of the most powerful men 
of his section, both politically and so- 
cially. 

He received his education in the 
public schools of Catahoula Parish 
and was elected a member of the Ca- 
tahoula parish school board, in 1904. 
He resigned this position in 1906, 
when he left the parish, to the deep 
regret of his friends and associates 
on the board. He first entered the 
mercantile business, from which he re- 
tired on January 1st, 1916, after mak- 
ing a complete success and amassing 
a comfortable fortune. Desiring, for 
the remainder of his life the quiet of 
a plantation and the fresh country air, 
he embarked in the stock-rearing 
business, and now numbers his cattle 
by the hundreds. 

Mr. Sorrells is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity. Odd Fellows and 
Knights of Pythias, and has occupied 
positions of trust in these organiza- 
tions. 




resentatives, was born in that par- 
ish Jan. 31, 1868, and moved to 
Hughes Spur, La., where he is now 
residing, in September, 1888. Mr. 
Hughes was educated in the public 
schools of his parish, and later at- 
tended L. S. U. and Tulane. Mr. 
Hughes started life as a farmer, and 
is now a prosperous merchant in his 
home town. In the last election he 
was called for his help and he was 
honored with a seat in the House of 
Repre-^entatives since 1904. 

Mr. Hughes was married to Miss 
l.ulu Du Bois on June 6, 1893. He was 
made a widower by the death of his 
first wife and was married in Sep- 
tember, 1904 to Miss Annie Oliver. 




REP. WILLIAM C. HUGHES, 
Bossier Parish. 

William C. Hughes, representing 
Bossier parish in the House of Rep- 



KEP. FRED J. HEINTZ, 
St. Tammany Parish. 

Mr. Heintz was born in New Or- 
leans on Nov. 10, 1885, and moved to 
Covington, his present address, some 
twelve years ago. He was married to 
Miss Loretta B. Tracy, daughter of 
James E. Tracy, of New Orleans, on 
Dec. S, 1908. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of New Orleans, graduating 
from the Boys' High School of that 
city. Afterwards he attended Tulane 
University and took the law course 



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ill that institution. He is a practic- 
ing attorney at Covington, where he 
has a large and lucrative practice. 

This is Mr. Heintz's second term 
in the Legislature and he is one of the 
leaders of that august body. His 
grandfather was the Rev. L. P. Heintz 
of New Orleans, and his father, Julius 
Heintz, served as coroner of St. Tam- 
many Parish, for sixteen years, a rec- 
ord term for that parish, and was 
mayor of Abita Springs for a long 
time. 




REP. GEORGE F. WESTFAI.L, 
St. Martin Parish. 

Mr. George F. Westill is one of 
those immigrants the State of Louisi- 
ana delights to welcome within her 
borders and to honor after they have 
become citizens of this great common- 
wealth. 

Mr. Westfall is living now at At- 
chafalaya, having moved there in 1907 
from Terre Haute, Ind. He was born 
in the latter place on Sept. 26, 1867, 
attended the public schools of his na- 
tive town and took a commercial 
course in one of the business colleges. 
He has been a newspaper man, an ex- 
press agent, a general fish and produce 
merchant, but because he was con- 
nected with the railroad the Railroad 



Cominission would not allow him to 
ship his fish from one point to anoth- 
er. 

In 1908 he was married to Miss El- 
vena Aucoin, daughter of Henry Au- 
coin, of Berwick, La., and although 
himself a native of another State had 
already become amalgamated both in 
nationality and residence to the State 
oi his adoption. He was nominated 
to the present office of representative 
ii^. the last election on the Democratic 
ticket and it was only after the hard- 
est kind of a fight and the expendi- 
ture of time and energy and a dis- 
play of accurate knowledge of condi- 
tions in his parish that he was finally 
tweeted in the general election, and 
be'ped to keep his parish in the Dem- 
ocratic column. 

We can only wish that Mr. Westfall 
would visit his foi-mer home in Terre 
Haue, Ind., and bring down to this 
country a few other Hoosiers and we 
would be satisfied with them if they 
were just one-half as good in charac- 
ter, in personality and energy as he is. 




REP. DANIEL J. MURPHY, 
Orleans Parish. 

Daniel J. Murphy, representative 
from the city of New Orleans in the 
House of Representatives, was born 



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on Oct. 26, 1878, in that city. He was 
educated in the public schools of New 
Orleans and entered Tulane Univer- 
sity, graduating from that institution 
with the degree of bachelor of laws in 
1899. Mr. Murphy has been a prac- 
ticing attorney in his native city since 
his graduation from the law school. 
He served as a member of the Second 
Congressional Committee, and is now 
representing his city as a Democrat 
in the House, where he is well known. 
Mr. Murphy was married to Miss 
Marie A. Larroque, and is well known 
in the fraternal circles of New Or- 
leans, being a member of the Knights 
of Columbus, Druids and the Ancient 
Order of Hibernians. 




KEP. FRANK BROOKS CAPPEL, 
Avoyelles Parish. 

Frank Brooks Cappel is one of the 
youngest legislators in the present as- 
sembly. He was born in Marksville, 
Avoyelles parish, in the year 1889 and 
has lived there all of his life with the 
exception of the years that he spent 
studying at the Louisiana State Uni- 
versity and at Tulane University. He 
is a graduate of both the academic 
and law departments of these univer- 
sities and an active attorney at law 
in the town of Marksville. He was 
elected to the present legislature on 



the Democrtic ticket and this is his 
first office. He is member of the 
Masons and the Elks, and unmarried 
at present. He is a staunch young 
Democrat and campaigned throughout 
the parish of Avoyelles for the Dem- 
ocratic ticket in the last campaign. 
He is young, energetic, and ambitious, 
and will undoubtedly become a lead- 
ing factor in Louisiana politics. 




REP. USHER RICHARDSON, 
Bienville Parish. 

William Usher Richardson, repre- 
sentative of Bienville parish, was 
born in Montgomery County, N. C, 
Sept. 12, 1845, on a farm or planta- 
tion. On .January, 1864, as a volun- 
teer, he entered the service of the 
Confederate States in Company "I," 
.'Kith Regiment, North Carolina Heavy 
Artillery, known as Lamb's Fort Fish- 
er Regiment. In this command he 
served until the end of the war, re- 
turned home to work on his father's 
plantation, but soon entered school, 
ending his academic course in 1868. 

In December, 1869, he came to Lou- 
isiana, resided in Bozier parish until 
1876 when he moved to Bienville. 
Completing his legal courses, he was 
admitted to the Louisiana bar July 17, 



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1878 at Monroe, La., by the Supreme 
Court. In 1879 he wa.s appointed Dis- 
trict Attorney but resigned the fol- 
lowing year. In 1884 he was elected 
Parish Superintendent of Public Ed- 
ucation, which office he held by re- 
election for twenty years. In 1896 he 
was elected representative, again in 
1908 and in 1916. Mr. Richardson 
was married March 17, 1870, becom- 
ing a widower January 7, 1876. He 
was again married October 12, 1878 
1o Miss Alice C. Torrow of Bienville. 
Of the former marriage one daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Kilgore of Shreveport, sur- 
vives. Of the lat'er marriage, one 
son, W. M. Richardson, Jr., of Shreve- 
port and one daughter, Miss Marie 
Richardson, of Arcadia, survives. Mr. 
Richardson is a widower and lawyer, 
active in the interests of the several 
sate and federal courts. 




REPRESENTATIVE FRED A EAR- 
HART. 
Orleans Parish. 

An affable whole-souled fellow, who 
always has a glad hand for whom 
he meets, is Fred A. Earhart, Repre- 
sentative from the Eleventh Ward of 
the City of New Orleans, in the ses- 
sion of 1916-20 of the Louisiana Legis- 



lature. He was born in the city which 
he now represents, in the year 1875, 
and was educated there, in the public 
schools, and later graduated from 
Asher School of Pharmacy. 

As a boy, he began his career in the 
capacity of errand boy for the firm 
of Finlay & Brunswick, wholesale 
druggists, of the Crescent City. By 
strict attention to work, he was rapid- 
ly promoted until he reached the point 
where he embarked in business for 
himself. As a successful druggist, he 
acquired a chain of paying drug 
stores, in which he installed those de- 
serving and meritorious clerks who 
had faithfully served him. Today he 
is proprietor of one of the best estab- 
lished drug businesses in New Or- 
leans. 

In 1900, Mr. Earhart was married 
to a Miss Hailes, a charming young 
woman, member of a prominent fam- 
ily of New Orleans, and from this hap- 
py union came six robust and pretty 
faced youngsters. 

In 1908 he was elected to the Legis- 
lature and again in 1916. While Fred 
is a member of the regular organiza- 
tion, he is imbued with ideas of a more 
or less independent nature. Possess- 
ing a high character and a determina- 
tion to do that whi'-i' is right at all 
times, he has incrirred the displeas- 
ure of political associates on several 
occasions. 

While he is not a reformer, he has 
ideas of honor and morality and hews 
to the line. Charity and benevolence, 
on his part, almost amount to a fault. 
Hundreds of sick and indigent people 
of his native city have felt the touch 
of his generous hand. Whenever he 
"donates" he does so out of purity of 
heart, without hope or thought of re- 
turn of favor. He is just one of these 
big, good natured men that one oc- 
casionally meets, in the natural course 
/of a life time, whose countenance as 
well as actions spreads joy and happi- 
ness to many hearts and homes. 

In fraternal circles, he is highly re- 
garded, being a member of the F. and 
A. M., Druids, Masons, W. O. W., and 
Ben Hur orders. During the Spanish 
war he served in the navy. 



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Representative Daniel F, Ashfoid, 
Tensas Parish. 



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REPRESENTATIVE DAVIS 
RICHARME. 

St. James Parish. 

Mr. Davis Richarme, of Gramercy, 
St. James Parisli, first saw tlie light 
of day at Pointe-a-la-Hache on Jan. 9, 
1862. He took up his present resi- 
dence in 1897 and has been one of the 
leading citizens since. His wife, who 
was Miss Mary Buras, a most lovable 
woman, was the daughter of Mr. 
Pierre Buras, a highly respected citi- 
zen of Buras, La. 

Mr. Richarme was educated at 
Home Private School, after which he 
took up the occupation of farmer, and 
later carpenter. Being a very practi- 
cal man and with a mechanical turn 
of mind, he advanced until he reached 
the post which he now holds, that of 
superintendent of construction. 

He was a member of the School 
Board of the parish in which he re- 
sides for more than twenty years; 
was also a deputy sheriff for eight 
years, and, incidentally, a director of 
two banks for a number of years. 

He is prominently identified with 
all the leading movements of his sec- 
tion and is a member of the W. O. W. 
and K. of C. 

Mr. Richarme is a typical Louisi- 



anian, a consistent political leader 
and was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives on the Dem- 
ocratic ticket. 




REP. E. H. EASTHAM, 
St. Landry Parish. 

Elected to the Legislature from St. 
Landry Parish on the Democratic 
ticket when the parish went Progres- 
sive by over 600 votes, shows that 
Representative Eastham is a man of 
integrity and a man whom the people 
of his parish trust. E. K. Eastham 
was born at Cattelsburg, Ky., and 
moved to his present address — Ope- 
lousas. La. — in 1905. He was married 
to Miss Kate G. Williamson, daughter 
of Judge J. E. Williamson, of Evans- 
ville, Ind., in 1904. 

He was educated in the public and 
private schools of his native State and 
possesses an education of a very high 
order. He is a dealer in timber lands 
and timber products in this State and 
is very much interested in the develop- 
ment of the enormous tracts of un- 
settled lands. 

He has served as city alderman for 
his adopted town and here he won a 
host of friends by his good work. He 
is a member of Opelousas Lodge No. 
1048, N. P. 0. E. 



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REV. CHARLES E. THIBODAUX, 

St. John Parish. 

Charles E. Thibodaux, representing 
St. .John Parish in the House of Rep- 
resentatives, was born in the year 
1875 at St. John the Baptist, La. Mr. 
Thibodaux received his education in 
the College of the Immaculate Con- 
ception. Mr. Thibodaux has long been 
closely connected with and interested 
in the sugar industry, being a well- 



known rice and sugar planter of 
Southeastern Louisiana. The Parish 
of St. John is fortunate in having one 
so well connected with and interested 
in her leading products to represent 
her in the State Legislature. Mr. 
Thibodaux is a leading citizen of Re- 
serve, La., and is a member of the 
Jesuits' Order. Mr. Thibodaux has 
always taken an active part in his 
parish and State, but up to this time 
has refused any public office. 



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REPRESENTATIVE PERCY SAINT, 
St. Mary Parish. 

As an evidence of the progressive 
spirit of certain sections of our state 
which demands that the fee system be 
abolished, that the business of the 
state should be put on a business basis 
that worthless parties should not con- 
trol the state and that Louisiana sha'l 
depart from the ruts of prejudice and 
start on that up and onward way which 
means for a better home for us anu 
our children, we have Representative 
Percy Saint of Franklin, La., St. Mary 
parish, elected on the Progressive 
platform to the legislature. This gen- 
tleman was born at Franklin, La., and 
has continued to live there since his 
birth. On December 7, 1903, when he 
was twenty-three years of age, he 
married Miss Cora McCardell, daugh- 
ter of the honorable S. T. McCardell. 

He was educated in the public and 
private schools of his native parish 
and afterwards attended the Univer- 
sity of Alabama. After graduating he 
entered life as an editor and served 
for several years at the head of a 
very progressive paper in his home 
parish. He later studied law and was 
admitted to the bar, at which he con- 
tinues to plead, having built up a large 
and flourishing law practice in his 



home section. No man stands for 
higher ethics in his profession than 
Mr. Saint. He was elected as a mem- 
ber of the Legislature in 1916 as a 
Progressive and he is serving his 
State largely trying to bring about 
the Progressive ideals, which, in this 
case, are almost identical with those 
of the Democratic party. 

Fraternally he is a Mason and a 
Druid. He was attorney for the tax 
collector for the Parish of St. Mary, 
where he gave satisfaction. 




REP. A. D. LAFARGUB, 
Avoyelles Parish. 

Avoyelles Parish. 

The Parish of Avoyelles took unto 
itself great honor when it overwhelm- 
ingly elected A. D. Lafargue to the 
House. He is a man of sterling worth, 
of proven qualities, an ideal neighbor 
and citizen and l; man schooled in 
public life. He brings to the service 
of Louisiana, in this her time of need, 
experience gained during long years 
of service to his State. 

Mr. Lafargue has been State Super- 
intendent of Education for Louisiana, 
and during his term of office, which 
was just after the surrender of the 
reins of government to the white De- 



mocracy by the carpetbaggers anil 
scalawags and when the State was in 
bad financial conditions, yet due to the 
efforts of Mr. Lafargue the system 
of schools which we now enjoy was 
laid during his term of office. After 
serving out his term as State Super- 
intendent he was elected tax collector, 
which he filled with credit to himself 
and friends. But the school authori- 
ties of Avoyelles were no;, slow to 
avail themselves of a man like Mr. 
Lafargue, and he was prevailed up an 
to accept the superintcndcncy of the 
.school.s of that parish. The sys'crii 
of schools which he started and which 
President V. L. Roy, of Natchitocher,, 
carried to consummation, placed Avo- 
yelles at the head of all the parishes 
in school matters. 

Becoming tired of public life, Mr. 
Lafargue refused a second term as 
superintendent and retired to his 
plantation. Yet his admiring friends, 
denying him the solace and pleasure 
of plantation life, called upon him to 
serve them as School Board member. 
Always of a modest disposition, but 
willing to serve his people, he con- 
sented to look after his people's in- 
terest for four more years. Not sat- 
isfied, the people of Avoyelles elected 
him at the head of the ticket, and 
without his consent, to the Legisla- 
ture, where he is now. 

Mr. Lafargue was educated in the 
Magruder Institute in Baton Rouge, 
and while in school led his classes in 
all literary subjects. He has been 
editor of several of our largest news- 
papers and critics say that there is 
no better editorial writer south of the 
Ohio River. He is a man of a crit- 
ical sense of the beautiful and revels 
in the best literature and works on 
education, politics and government. 

The great and grand old man lives 
on his plantation near Effie, La., 
where he is engaged in stock raising. 
He was born May 11, 1845, and mar- 
ried Miss Florence Waddel, daughter 
of Senator Waddel, of Marksville, 
La., on April 4, 1879. He is a Mason. 

"A man who has given the best 
years of his life to the service of his 
State." 



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REP. EDWIN J. SCHAFF. 
Orleans Parish. 

Representative Schaff was born in 
New Orleans on August 23, 1877, and 
has lived in the Crescent City all his 
life. His address is 2302 Washington 
Avenue. August 29, 1902, he mar- 
ried Miss Magdelina Lebee, daughter 
of Adam Lebee, and to this union sev- 
en children have been born; five boys 
and two girls. 

Mr. Schaff was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native city, and be- 
gan life as a water boy for the Ro- 
sette Grant Company, and is now a 
street car conductor in New Orleans. 
Mr. Schaff believes in oi-ganized labor 
and is one of the leading men in the 
Carmen's Union in his native city. He 
was one ef the six "hosen to repre- 
sent the carmen at their national con- 
vention in Rochester, New York, at its 
last meeting. 

He is very prominent in all politi- 
cal matters of the Crescent City. He 
introduced the Schaff racing bill at 
the 1916 session of the Legislature. 
He was one time superintendent of 
the St. Charles Avenue Commission, 
which has done many things for the 
uplift of that section. 



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REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES H. 
MUNSON. 

Assumption Parish. 

Charles H. Munson, of Napoleon- 
ville, La., is one of the new Represen- 
tatives in the present session of the 
Legislature, from the heart of the fa- 
mous "sugar country" of Louisiana, 
and comes to the House with a prac- 
tical knowledge of that important in- 
dustry, gained through participation 
in the management of the plantation. 
He was born at Napoleonville, La., 
May 27, 1878, and has resided in that 
community all his life. In 1902 he 
was married to Miss Josie LeBIanc, 
daughter of Mrs. Lucille LeBIanc, who 
belongs to a family well known 
through the south central portion of 
this State. 

Mr. Munson was educated at St. 
Stanislaus, Bay St. Louis, and after 
finishing his course, engaged in grow- 
ing cane near his home town, and is 
now interested in two sugar cane 
plantations on Bayou LaFourche. Few 
lawmakers have a more practical 
knowledge of the needs of this indus- 
try, and his experience will soon un- 
doubtedly be valuable in the considei^a- 
tion of measures touching the needs 
of this industry, which has been more 
thoroughly discussed, both in and out 



of Louisiana, the past few years than 
has any industry in the South. 

In fraternal circles Mr. Munson is 
a member of the K. of C. Council No. 
1099, and works consistently for the 
good of the organization. He is also 
engaged in the banking business, be- 
ing a member of the Board of Direct- 
ors of the Bank of Assumption. Ilis 
opportunities for obssrving the meth- 
ods of business in other Stales has 
been ample. On three occasions he 
hns made extensive trips through the 
United States and Canada, visiting 
many States and the principal cities 
of this country. In 1912, at the invi- 
tation of friends and relatives he 
spent some time in the city of Boston, 
Mass., where he had an opportunity 
cf studying methods and conditions in 
one of the large shipping points of 
the Northeast, which, with ripe busi- 
ness experience equips this Represen- 
tative well for the problems now call- 
ing for settlement in Louisiana. 




REP. W. L. CARRUTH, 
East Feliciana Parish. 

Born in Wilson, East Feliciana Par- 
ish, La., in April, 1873, he spent all 
his life in this State and was edu- 
cated in its public schools. 

Mr. Carruth, in 1905, married Miss 



M. White, of Wilson, La., the daugh- 
ter of James White. 

The subject of this sketch, after 
completing the public schools, entered 
school at Port Gibson, Miss. He then 
took special agricultural work at Leb- 
anon, Ohio. Returning home, he took 
up the duties of life as a planter and 
continues to devote to this work his 
best skill and attention. He has been 
a very successful agriculturist and 
now has a pretty and good planta- 
tion in East Feliciana Parish. He is 
a member of the W. O. W. 

Before being elected to the Legis- 
lature he was a member of the East 
Feliciana Police Jury for a number of 
years, and during this time he helped 
to place that parish near the front in 
development of roads, etc. 




REP. F. M. EDWARDS. 
Tangipahoa Parish. 

Coming from the land of strawber- 
ries and sunshine, with the odor of 
magnolia blooms about him, is Rep- 
resentative F. M. Edwards, who was 
born in Amite City, La., Aug. 20, 1894. 
He has always lived in this charming 
town and is unmarried. 

He was educated in the high school 
of Amite and later attended the Loui- 
siana State University. For the past 



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eight years he has been editor of "The 
Florida Parishes," a paper which 
stands for the right and for the ad- 
vancement of that section of the 
State. This paper, under the wise 
editorship of Mr. Edwards, was con- 
sidered the organ of the Florida Par- 
ish section of our State, and his edi- 
torials were often quoted by the larg- 
est newspapers south of the Ohio 
River. To the regret of those who 
love clean journalism and up-to-date 
discussions of the chief topics of the 
day, Mr. Edwards has disposed of his 
paper, but we hope that under the 
guidance of the purchaser that it will 
remain the power it is. 



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REP. CHARLES HERNDON LOVE. 
Allen Parish. 

Chai'les Herndon Love represents 
the Parish of Allen in the House of 
Representatives. Mr. Love is a self- 
made man, having by dint of hard 
work and careful saving worked his 
way from school teaching and rail- 
roading to attorney at law. He has a 
large practice in the Parish of Allen 
£ind has his home at Kinder. 

Mr. Love was born in 1876 in Gre- 
iiada, Miss., and came to Louisiana 
when G years of age and settled with 
his parents in Calcasieu Parish in 1888. 



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His wife is the daughter of Rene Reed 
of Canton, La., and they were married 
on Aug. 3, 1909. He has no diplomas 
from any school but a scholarly bear- 
ing shows that he has been a hard 
student by lamplight in his home. 

While working on the railroad he 
studied at night and passed the ex- 
amination for school teacher in the 
Parish of Calcasieu and while teach- 
ing school read law and was admitted 
to the bar. His hobby in the Louisi- 
ana State Legislature is to do all that 
he can to improve the cut-over lands 
of southern Louisiana and to pass any 
legislation that will have a tendency 
to increase the value of these lands. 
He fills a need that is a glaring one 
to every traveler who has had occa- 
sion to see for himself the cut-over 
pine lands in the southern part of the 
State. 



1866, and moved to Louisiana and lo- 
cated at Minden in 1893. 

He has been mayor of Minden for 
three terms, during which time many 
improvements were made in the town, 
its industries have been developed, 
capital has come to the city, and the 
place is now one of the most thriving 
parish seats in Louisiana. For eight 
years he was a member of the Parish 
School Board, and during this time 
one has but to know the conditions 
of affairs when he was elected and 
now in that parish to realize that 
there has been a great work done. 
This has been the work, for the most 
part, of our good friend, Mr. Kent. 
He was chairman of the Democratic 
Executive Committee for eight years, 
and was elected to the House in 1916. 





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REPRESENTATIVE J. P. KENT. 
Webster Parish. 

One of the few men of the journal- 
istic fraternity to receive political 
honors is J. P. Kent, of Minden, La., 
publisher and editor of the "Signal 
Democrat," a paper of wide influence 
in Webster parish, and throughout all 
of North Louisiana. Mr. Kent was 
born in Selma, Alabama, in January, 




REP. J. M. SANDERS, 
St. Landry Parish. 

From a former capital city of Lou- 
isiana, Opelousas, comes J. M. San- 
ders to Baton Rouge bearing a com- 
mission as a representative from the 
people of St. Landry Parish. Mr. 
Sanders was born at St. Martinville, 
La., Aug. 3, 1867, and moved to his 
present address in 1875. On Dec. 19, 



1895, he married Miss Bettie Smith, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Smith, 
of St. Landry Parish. Mrs. Sanders 
comes from one of the oldest families 
of St. Landry, famous and prominent 
ii; the .social and political life of that 
parish. 

Mr. . Sanders was educated in the 
public schools of St. Landry Parish 
and afterwards attended St. Charles 
College, located at Grand Coteau. La. 
He was first a nursery dealer and aft- 
er several years spent in this work he 
became an insurance agent, at which 
he continues to devote his time and 
energy. Mr. Sanders is serving his 
maiden term in the General Assembly, 
but has already built up a large and 
influential friendship with the "lead- 
ers." He is a Mason, a K. of P. and 
a Woodman. 




REPRESENTATIVE VVM. F. ROY. 
St. Bernard Parish. 

Founder of the "St. Bernard Voice", 
president of the Louisiana Press As- 
sociation from 1912-13, Mr. Roy is 
one of the few successful journalists 
to enter upon a political career with 
the almost unanimous consent of his 
constituents. He was born in Arabia, 



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Parish of St. Bernard, on October 10, 
1870, and has lived in St. Bernard 
Parish all of his life. He was mar- 
ried on October 4, 1893, to Mary Alive 
Main, daughter of Edward M. Main. 

The editor of the "St. Bernard 
Voice," Mr. Roy, was educated in 
Jesuits College, New Orleans, and es- 
tablished his paper on January 11, 
1890. This paper is recognized by peo- 
ple throughout South Louisiana and its 
opinions are respected and followed 
by a large number of people in this 
section of the State. The editorial 
policy of this paper has always been 
favorable to the social, economic and 
political development of St. Bernard 
Parish, and it is due, in a large meas- 
ure, to the activities of this paper that 
sentiment is so well formed in that 
parish on all public questions. 

Mr. Roy is a member of the Catho- 
lic Knights" of America, Woodmen of 
the World, and Elks. The editors of 
Louisiana, realizing his worth, elected 
him to head the Press Club, which po- 
sition he filled with credit to himself 
and friends. He has great journalis- 
tic ability, which is always applied in 
the right direction. 




REP. PHILIP ARRAS, 
Orleans Parish. 



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REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE T. 
VEEDER. 

St. Mary Parish. 

"I believe in efficient State govern- 
ment, in the enforcement of the laws, 
in helping in the progress of indus- 
trial development of the State of Lou- 
isiana, and in the principle that no 
section of the State or nation should 
be legislated against," says George T. 
Veeder, St. Mary Parish, "and for 
that reason I belong to the Progres- 
sive party." This is a conviction and 
an attitude which must come over the 
people of Louisiana, and for that mat- 
iter over the people of the United 
States before they can take the front 
place for progressive State and na- 
tional government. So long as peo- 
ple support a party just because it is 
so labeled, so long will bossism flour- 
ish and stagnation prevail. 

Representative Veeder was born at 
Charenton, Louisiana, on May 7, 1887, 
and has lived there practically all his 
life. On January 25, 1905, he was 
married to Miss May Schwing, daugh- 
ter of John Schwing of St. Mary par- 
ish. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of his native parish, and then 
attended the Bowling Green Business 



University at Bowling Green, Ken- 
tucky, where he graduated with hon- 
ors. After graduation he entered in- 
to the business of life as a merchant, 
and now combines that occupation 
with that of planting. Needless to 
say that he has made a success in 
life for "A tree is known by its 
fruits," and the fruit here is excel- 
lent. He was elected to the Legisla- 
ture in 1908 and served four years 
as a Democrat. Since then he has 
believed in the principle enunciated in 
the first paragraph of this sketch, and 
has not hesitated to follow his con- 
victions. 

Mr. Veeder is a leader in the halls 
of the House, and is fostering and sup- 
porting the reform measures for 
which both parties stand pledged. 




REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES A. 

HENRICKS. 

Orleans Parish. 

Elected to the House in 1916 with- 
out opposition from the parish of Or- 
leans, Fifteenth V/ard, is a feat not 
to be slightly passed over. But when 
the fact is realized that Mr. Henricks 
is a representative of the substantial 
business men of the city, that he has 
always stood for the highest order of 
social betterment, possesses the 



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friendship and active support of all 
elements of his ward, the reason is 
soon seen. Louisiana, in her present 
critical economic condition, needs the 
guidance of men who have made a 
success of their own private business 
to help her over the stony places in 
the road to prosperity. 

The subject of this sketch was born 
in the city of New Orleans, on March 
27, 1884, and has lived there all his 
life. His home is at .333 Pelican ave- 
nue, where Mrs. Emma L. Caradise 
Hendricks, whom he married in July, 
1909, presides. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of New Orleans, and after fin- 
ishing the course, he began life in the 
Hibernia Bank and Trust Company, 
where he is now engaged. The Rep- 
resentative has been a Democrat par- 
ish committeeman for the Fifteenth 
Ward, Orleans Parish, for several 
years. 




KEP. JAMES J. FORTIER, 

Orleans Parish. 

James J. A. Fortier, Representative 
from Orleans Parish, was born in the 
City of New Orleans July 15, 1890, 
and has lived there all his life. He 
married Miss Marie Rose Gelpi, one of 
the charming young society matrons 



of New Orleans. Mr. Fortier's home 
address is 1308 Dauphine street and 
his law office is at 409 Weis building 
in New Orleans. 

Mr. Fortier was educated in the 
College of the Immaculate Conception 
and at Tulane University, where he 
graduated both as a Bachelor of Arts 
and a Bachelor of Laws. His firm 
name is known as Menefee & Fortier. 

He is an Elk and a member of the 
Benevolent Knights of America and 
holds membership in the following 
clubs: Pickwick, Chess, Checkers and 
Whist, Choctaw, Press Club of New 
Orleans, Public School Alliance, Loui- 
siana Historical Society, L'Union 
Francaise, Athenee Louisianias, legal 
fraternity of Phi Delta Phi and Phi 
Delta Theta. 

He was a Representative in the 
House during the extra session of 
1915 from the Sixth Ward, New Or- 
leans, and is now a member from the 
same ward for the term 1916-20. His 
father was the late Alcee Fortier, Tu- 
lane University, and famous through- 
out the United States for his histor- 
ical works no less than for his work 
in the romance department of the 
university. 



REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT J. 
BOUDREAU. 

Vermilion Parish. 

The civilization of the world has 
reached its present high state of ef- 
ficiency because there were some peo- 
ple in it who had the courage and 
will to follow where their reason led 
them rather than follow the beaten 
path of tradition where all is stagna- 
tion and retrogression; so it is that 
the reformer is hissed in his own day 
and lauded as a savior of his race in 
the days after he is dead and gone. 
The Progressive party believes in cer- 
tain principles of government which 
the trend of events call for and which 
we shall eventually have. Louisiana 
is looked upon as a stronghold of De- 
mocracy, and as such there is a ten- 
dency to look upon any man who dares 
to leave the party as a traitor. Not 



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so in the Third District, which sends 
Mr. R. J. Boudreau to the Legisla- 
ture on a Progressive plaform, and 
which he is struggling with might and 
main to carry out. 

His father, who was sheriff of Ver- 
milion Parish for two terms, and his 
brother, Dr. L. M. Boudreau, who is 
also a Democrat, worked hard for the 
election of Colonel Pleasant as Gov- 
ernor of the State. Mr. R. J. Bou- 
dreau, the subject of this sketch, was 
born at Abbeville, La., on September 
5, 1884, and moved to Erath, his pres- 
ent address, three years ago. He was 
married to Miss Leah Le Blanc of 
Erath, in 1905. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native parish 
and later attended Southwestern In- 
dustrial Institute at Lafayette, La. 

He began his life as a traveling 
salesman for San Nursery Company 
of Winchester, Tenn. Seven years 
later he began to farm, and is now a 
farmer and a promoter. He is vice- 
president of the Erath Nursery and 
Orchard Company, and a director of 
the Erath Sugar Company, and being 
interested in the sugar industry and 
not willing to see the fruits of his la- 
bor destroyed and his State ruined, 
will account for his being a Progres- 
sive. 




REP. CHARLES A. SMITH, 
Pointe Coupee Parish. 

Descendant of the Randolphs of 
Virginia, possessing the capacities for 
leadership for which this race has 
been noted in the annals of American 
history, Charles A. Smith, of Valver- 
da. La., comes to the State Capitol 
bearing a commission to serve the 
people of Pointe Coupee Parish in the 
legislative halls of this State. He was 
born at Ansonville, N. C, April 1, 
1867, and moved to Louisiana in 1889, 
locating at Fordoche, La., and to his 
present address in 1902. In January, 
189.3, he married Miss Edna Earl 
Major, daughter of Mr. J. B. Major, 
a prominent Louisianian. 

Mr. Smith was educated in the pub- 
lic schools in his native State and 
attended and completed his course 
from Kings Mountain High School, of 
Kings Mountain, N. C. He first en- 
tered on the struggle of life as a 
clerk, but, becoming nauseated with 
the monotonous life of a twirler of 
the pen, he engaged in planting and 
merchandising on his own capital. In 
this business he has made a complete 
success. He is a member of the Board 
of Directors of the Bank of New 
Roads, New Roads, La., and the Bank 
of Maringouin, Maringouin, La., Vice 



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President of the New Roads Oil 
Mill and Manufacturing Co., and Vice 
President of the Central Louisiana 
Sugar Factory, Inc., Valverda, La. A 
successful planter and business man, 
he takes interest in the social, eco- 
nomic, educational and political de- 
velopment of his parish and State and 
makes an ideal man for a member of 
the Legislature. 

Fraternally he is a thirty-second 
degree Mason and a Shriner. Who 
says that Louisiana does not offer a 
man the opportunities which are sec- 
ond to none in the world? 




KEP H. B. CONNOR, 
Concordia Parish. 

One of the needs of Louisiana, as 
pointed out by Governor Ruffin G. 
Pleasant, in his inaugural address, is 
the attraction of men from other 
States who shall come with the inten- 
tion of making their homes in this 
State, and employing their capital and 
their talents to the upbuilding of her 
industries. H. B. Conner, who comes 
from Vidalia, La., as the representa- 
tive from his adopted home, is an ex- 
ample along this line, which presents 
a sharp contrast to the many who 
have used the State's resources as a 
commercial prize, only to return to 



their home communities to employ 
wealth thus secured, in upbuilding of 
rXstant enterprises. Mr. Conner was 
born at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 4th, 
1882, and removed to Louisiana in 
September, 1904. He was educated 
at Washington and Lee University, 
and at the University of Nashville, 
early choosing the teacher's profession 
in which he held a high place. He 
became cashier of the Bank of Water- 
proof, La., in 190fi, and cashier of the 
Bank of Vidalia in 1910, which posi- 
tion he now holds. He was married 
March, 1909, to Miss Margaret 
Graves, daughter of E. E. Graves, of 
Waterproof, La. 

His first political office was that of 
alderman in the town of Waterproof, 
La., and later was elected to the 
House of Representatives. In fra- 
ternal circles he is past master of his 
Masonic Lodge, and past chancellor 
Knights of Pythias, and has repre- 
sented both these fraternities in the 
grand lodge for the past two years. 
Although still young in years, he has 
had experience in both the teaching 
profession and the business world, 
which equips him for a useful career 
in the field of politics. A college 
trained man himself, he is in thorough 
sympathy with advanced educational 
measures for the State at large, and 
will be found in line for such legisla- 
tion, as will tend to the uplift of the 
school system, both city and parish. 



REPRESENTATIVE G. G. KRONEN- 
BERGER. 

Orleans Parish. 

Mr. G. G. Kronenberger was born 
in the city of New Orleans, April 26, 
1874. He has been honored in va- 
rious respects by his home citizens, 
having been called upon to serve as 
a member of the Board of Directors 
of the public schools, and as president 
of that board, there being no more re- 
sponsible position in the State. He 
had the guidance of the thousands of 
children in his care, and he has done 
his work well. 

During his incumbency as a mem- 



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ber of the School Board and as presi- 
dent of the board, the New Orleans 
public schools have spread to meet 
the needs and wishes of its citizens. 
Since 1912 Mr. Kronenberger has been 
representing New Orleans in the 
House of Representatives, and has 
been faithful to his duties in every 
respect. He graduated from Tulane 
University Law School Department in 
1895, and has been an attorney and 
notary in New Orleans since that time. 
Fraternally Mr. Kronenberger is 
exceptionally well known, belonging 
to many and various orders. He be- 
longs to the Jerusalem Temple, A. C. 
N. M. S.; Indivisible Friends Com- 
mandery. No. 1, K. T.; Louisiana 
Council, No. 2, R. & S. M.; Orleans 
Delta R. A. Chapter, No. 1; Alpha 
Home Lodge, No. 72, F. & A. M.; Fra- 
ternity Moose, No. 57, United Ancient 
Order of Druids; Virginius Lodge, No. 
88, Knights of Pythias. 



REPRESENTATIVE W. F. PIPES. 

William F. Pipes was born at Cal- 
houn, La., July 27, 1891, and has lived 
there all of his life, refuting the doc- 
trine that "a prophet is not without 
honor save in his own country," for 
he was elected to the Legislature with 



an ovei-whelming vote and is serving 
his people with a conscientiousness of 
purpose and a loftiness of ideals which 
means that the trust was well placed. 
All the great men of recent history 
embarked on life at an early age and 
camo to maturity before the average 
man has left the stage of adolescence. 
Napoleon had "mingled the lilies of 
France with the eagles of the crags" 
before he was 22 years of age, and 
Mr. Pipes, though not a Napoleon and 
not compared with him in any sense 
of the word, is one of the recognized 
leaders in the halls of the Legisla- 




ture and the councils of the Demo- 
cratic party and he is only 25 years 
of age. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of Ouachita Parish, graduat- 
ing from the Calhoun High School. 
He then entered the University of 
Michigan and graduated there with the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts. After- 
wards he entered the Louisiana State 
University and graduated there with 
the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and 
is now actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession before the bar 
of North Louisiana. 

Fraternally he is a Mason, a S. A. 
E. and a T. N. E. This is his first 
political position. 




REP. L. B. UcBELLEVUE, 
Acadia Parish. 

Born and reared in Louisiana, ex- 
perienced in the details of office work, 
learned in the law, and possessing the 
abilities that win, Mr. L. B. DeBelle- 
vue comes to the law-making body of 
Louisiana from Acadia Parish, lead- 
ing the ticket by five hundred votes, in 
the first primary, over three oppon- 
ents, even though he had resided in 
this parish for only three years. He 
was born at Marksville, Louisiana on 
January 19, 1888, and moved to Crow- 
ley in January, 1913, where he has 
since resided, Mr. De Bellevue is un- 
married. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of Avoyelles Parish, graduat- 
ing from the Marksville High School 
in 1905. He is the fifth son and ninth 
child of O. B. DeBellevue, editor and 
publisher of the "Avoyelles Enter- 
prise," a weekly newspaper of great 
power for a country paper, at Marks- 
ville. He was reared on a farm. He 
started to read law after graduation 
from the high school, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1908. He took a 
course in shorthand and typewriting 
and the first position he held was in 
Crowley, but remained there for only 
a few months, as he was offered and 



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accepted a position as chief stenogra- 
pher with the Louisiana Railroad 
Commission at Baton Rouge, and re- 
mained here until 1912, at which time 
he resigned and went to Crowley to 
practice law, with >iis elder brother, 
who had just been elected district at- 
torney of that district. 

Mr. DeBellevue is an Elk and a 
Knight of Columbus. 




REPRESENTATIVE C. B. HUSON. 
De Soto Parish. 

Mansfield has sent her leading citi- 
zen to the State Capitol to frame laws 
for the rest of the State. Mr. Huson 
was Mayor of Mansfield for two years 
and was instrumental in having the 
town improved and beautified. He 
takes an active interest in the affairs 
of old De Soto and is always in the 
front rank for social and political bet- 
terment of his parish and State. Mr. 
Huson was born at Mansfield Dec. 4, 
1879, and has since resided there. In 
1910 he married Miss Willie May 
Thornton, who makes his home hos- 
pitable to all his friends. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of Mansfield and took up the 
study of law. After being admitted 
to the bar he began practice in Mans- 
field, and now there is no more highly 



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respected man before the bar of North 
Louisiana than this highly educated 
and eloquent genetleman, C. B. Huson. 
His father, L. H. Huson, served De 
Sato Parish two terms as sheriff. Mr. 
Huson was elected to the House in 
1916 with a good, substantial margin, 
and entered on his duties with the 
grim determination for good that has 
characterized him throughout his life. 




REP. HORACE WILKINSON, 
West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Horace Wilkinson, representing the 
Parish of West Baton Rouge in the 
House of Representatives, was born 
in Riverside, La., in the year 1854, and 
moved to Port Allen, where he is now 
lesiding, in 1886. Mr. Wilkinson did 
not have the usual advantages of a 
.schooling in public schools and col- 
leges, but educated himself through 
his own efforts. He began life as a 
farmer and is one of the most promi- 
nent and prosperous farmers in the 
State of Louisiana. 

Mr. Wilkinson served as president 
and member of the Police Jury for 
twelve years, 1888-1900. He was 
chairman of the Choctaw Drainage 
Board for seven years, and was for 
eight years a member of the Atchafa- 
laya Levee Board, 1890 to October, 



1899, when he resigned. He was re- 
appointed in 1912 by Governor Hall 
and resigned in 1914 to accept elec- 
tion to the House of Representatives. 
Mr. Wilkinson was vice chairman of 
the State Central Committee from 
1912 to 1914, and on the death of 
Colonel Thomas J. Lewis he was elect- 
ed chairman. He served in these ca- 
pacities with so much success that he 
was re-elected chairman from West 
Baton Rouge and was re-elected to 
the House of Representatives in 1916 
without opposition. 

Mr. Wilkinson was married to Miss 
Julia Merwin, daughter of Judge D. 
0. Merwin and Mrs. Virginia Carter 
Merwin, of Vicksburg, Miss. Mr. Wil- 
kinson is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias. 




REPRESENTATIVE J. H. PI GH, 

Iberville Parish. 

J. H. Pugh, of Plaquemine, La., was 
elected to the House of Representa- 
tives by the people of Iberville par- 
ish, leading a field of three by a good 
margin, on a platform declaring for 
abolishment of all useless offices, re- 
trenchment of expenses of the State 
govei'nment and local option. He has 
always stood for reform since his 
entry into the politics of his adopted 



palish, and the fact that he obtained 
more votes than the other candidates 
for the Legislature shows that the 
people of his parish approve his polit- 
cial principles. 

Mr. Pugh was born at Donaklson- 
ville, La., in the same residence occu- 
pied by the late Francis T. Nicholls, 
who was his granduncle, and lived 
there until 1905, when he married 
Miss Peace Sprague, of Winchester, 
Tenn., and moved to Plaquemine, La. 

He is a lawyer and enjoys a pros- 
perous practice in the judicial dis- 
trict in which he lives. 

His education was obtained in the 
public schools of this State and Tu- 
lane University and the University of 
Virginia, where he was graduated in 
law. 

He is a member of the Delta Tau 
Delta Greek letter fraternity, having 
been initiated at Tulane University 
and then transferred to the chapter 
at the University of Virginia. 




KKP. J. HUGO DORE, 

Evangeline Parish. 

The Repi-esentative from Evange- 
line parish, Hon. J. Hugo Dore, was 
born at I^eonville, St. Landry, parish, 
La., August 14th, 1890, and is one of 
the young members of the House. He 



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removed to Ville Platte, his present 
home, in 1912, and engaged in the 
practice of law, being elected town at- 
torney, in which position he has 
served his home community for two 
years. 

Mr. Dore attended the public schools 
and graduated from Crowley High 
School, entering Louisiana State Uni- 
versity, as a freshman, in 1907, im- 
mediately upon his graduation from 
Crowley. Taking the literary science 
course, he was graduated, with the de- 
gree B. A., in 1911, receiving the de- 
gree LL.B. from the same institu- 
tion in 1912. He is a member of the 
Woodmen of the World and Knights 
of Columbus, and takes much interest 
in the work of these organizations. 

Mr. Dore, in common with a large 
number of law makers in both houses, 
has had his training as a lawyer, but 
he represents a parish rich in agri- 
cultural possibilities for the imme- 
diate future and these interests will 
have a staunch friend, in the person 
of their chosen member in this ses- 
sion. He is especially concerned in 
building up the educational work of 
the Louisiana State University, both 
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 
lege, and the extension service, which 
brings information to the homes of 
Louisiana farmers. A native born son 
of the State in which he serves, he 
has come to its House of Representa- 
tives as a Democrat, working in har- 
mony with the party, and has already 
made for himself a place in the coun- 
cils of the State organization. 



REP. H. ARTHUR MORGAN, 
Ascension Pari.sh. 

The respresentative from Ascension 
Parish, Mr. H. Arthur Morgan, was 
I'orn at Baton Rouge, La., Oct. 12, 
1872, and has resided in this section 
of the State all his life with the ex- 
ception of the period spent in pur.suit 
of knowledge at Lexington, Ky., where 
he attended the W. R. Smith Commer- 
cial College. He married Miss Cora 
Carmena, daughter of Manuel Car- 
mena, of Baton Rouge, .Jan. 12, 1896. 
Mr. Morgan is the son of the late 
Captain E. S. Morgan and Mary J. 



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Cunningham and his family affilia- 
ticns are of the capital city and its 
environs. 

He early showed an interest in ag- 
ricultural problems and took an active 
interest in the work of building up 
that great organization known as the 
Farmers' Educational and Co-opera- 
tive Union of America, which has be- 
come 3 power in Louisiana as in many 
o'her States in which it maintains 
strong and virile memberships. In 
this work his services were recognized 
most signally and he was chosen as a 
member of the State executive com- 
mittee, which is really the goverening 
factor of the State Union. 

This organization aims to not only 
foster co-operation in marketing farm 
products but seeks to educate its mem- 
bers and the farming interests in 
general as to crop management and 
the needs of this industry at the hands 
of the lawmaking body in each State. 
Mr. Morgan is in close touch with its 
work and it is safe to say that no per- 
son in Louisiana is better able to pre- 
sent its cause. His long service with 
the State Union, together with the 
confidence reposed in him by its mem- 
bers, cannot but be of great assist- 
ance in securing hearing among his 
colleagues. In 1914 Mr. Morgan re- 
moved from Burnside to Darrow, La., 



where he is engaged in farming and 
stocking-growing. Prior to his elec- 
tion to the House as a member of the 
I'emocratic Party he served as jury 
commissioner of Ascension Parish. He 
is a member of the W. O. W. and N. 
O. of R. M., and enjoys a large ac- 
quaintance throughout the entire 
State. 



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REPRESENTATIVE GILBERT L. 

DUPRE. 

St. Landry Parish. 

Mr. Gilbert L. Dupre needs no in- 
troduction to the public of Louisiana. 
He is one of its best known citizens, a 
sterling Democrat, a loyal Louisian- 
ian, and a man who fears no scold- 
ing that he might not do right. 

Gilbert Dupre was born in the town 
of Opelousas, in the Parish of St. 
Landry, was educated in its public 
schools, read law, after securing a job 
in the clerk of court's office, and was 
admitted to the bar, where he has been 
one of Louisiana's leading lawyers. He 
has served in the Legislature before 
as well as having been elected judge 
of his district for one or two terms. 

In June 1881 he was married to 
Miss Julia B. Estilette,, daughter of 
E. D. Estilette, of Opelousas, and has 
lived in Opelousas all their married 



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clays. He is a member of the Elks and 
other fraternal organizations. He is 
an active public-spirited citizen, and 
you don't need to wait long to under- 
stand just exactly where he stands on 
any public question. If you do not be- 
lieve this last statement consult any 
suffraget. 




REI>RESENTATIVE NUME FRAN- 
COIS MONTET. 

Lafourche Parish. 

Nume Francois Montet, who comes 
to the Louisiana House of Representa- 
tives from Lafourche Parish, was 
born at Thibodaux, La., Sept. 17, 1882, 
and is one of the younger members 
who were elected on the Progressive 
ticket during the recent election. He 
is a lawyer and his early education 
was gained in the parish schools and 
at State normal schools. He spent 
some time teaching school, but later 
entei-ed Tulane University, from which 
he received his diploma from the law 
department. 

He has always taken active part in 
political matters and has for some 
time served as secretary and treas- 
urer of the town of Thibodaux, his 
affiliations being with the Progressive 
party. When the Progressive party 
was launched in Southern Louisiana, 



in response to the call of many citi- 
zens, who believed that heroic meas- 
ures were demanded to save the sugar 
industry, Mr. Montet espoused this 
cause, and, although one of the 
younger leaders in his party, he was 
selected to serve in the General As- 
sembly. Feb. 21, 1914, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Angele Morvant, of Thib- 
odaux. He is a member of the Fra- 
ternal Order of Eagles and is promi- 
nent in social and professional circles 
in his native parish. 




REP. CHARLES S. CHAUVIN, 
Terrebonne Parish. 

Mr. Chauvin was affiliated with the 
Republican Party and was a Republi- 
can until 1912, when he went over to 
the ranks of the Democratic Party 
and helped to elect the nominees of 
that party. But in 1914 he joined the 
Progressive revolt in the Third Dis- 
trict and aided very much in the elec- 
tion of the first Progressive candi- 
date from Louisiana to the Congress 
of the United States. He is a native 
Louisianian, having been born in 
Terrebonne Parish in 1871 and living 
there all his life. In 1904 he married 
Miss Elda Theriot, daughter of Felix 
Theriot, of his native section. 

After finishing the public schools 



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of his native parish he took a course 
by correspondence from a business 
college and began life as a clerk for a 
large mercantile establishment. While 
in this employ he won promotion and 
saved enough money to purchase a 
100-acre farm at Chauvin, La., known 
as the Progressive Truck and Stock 
Farm. This is a very fine home and 
he is justly proud of the farm and its 
equipment, for it is among the best 
in the entire South. 

Fraternally he is a Knight of Co- 
lumbus and a Maccabee and takes a 
great interest in the work of these 
organizations of his home section, 
where he has a large and faithful fol- 
lowing. 




REP. GEORGE W. FOSTER, 
Grant Parish. 

Hailing from the pine-clad bills of 
north Louisiana with an eye to the 
development of the cut-over lands and 
interested in all that the State can do 
to aid and hasten this development is 
Represenative George W. Foster, of 
Pollock, La., where he has lived since 
1907. Mr. Foster was born in 1879 
and was married to Miss Claudia Par- 
due, of Downsville, La., in 1913. Hav- 
ing been born in Grant Parisii and 
living there all his life he is familiar 
with every part of the parish and a 



great many of the people he can call 
by their first names. 

Mr. Foster was educated in the 
public .schools of his parish, but after- 
v.ards attended Mount Lebanon Col- 
lege. He has always taken a great 
interest in the betterment of thf pub- 
lic schools, believing that the .'iolutioii 
for the economic troubles of the rural 
-sections depends on the country 
schools. 

Mr. Foster first engaged in the 
mercantile business, with farming for 
liastime as well as profit. Afterwards 
he helped to organize the Bank of Pol- 
lock and was made its cashier, at 
which he is now engaged. He has 
served for several years as town coun- 
cilor of his resident town and has 
helped to develop its industries and 
pave its streets. He is a Mason, a 
Woodman, and a member of the East- 
ren Star. This is his maiden term 
in the House, but he is winning friends 
rapidly and has presented several 
bills for the betterment of the State, 
in which he takes a deep interest. 




REP. ALBERT J. LASSEIGNE, 

Lafourche Parish. 

Albert J. Lasseigne, of Thibodaux, 
La., was born in Lafourche Parish in 
1859 and has resided there practically 



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all his life. He is a Progressive Party 
candidate, having aspoused that cause 
at the cani];aign in common with 
many of his co;is ituen's from south 
ccn ral Louisiana, who chose him as 
one of their s'.andard-bearers for the 
General Assemb'y, to which he was 
elected in 1916. 

Mr. Lasseigne is a college-trained 
man, 'laving been educated at .JefTer- 
so.i Colore and at Louisiana State 
Univci'Sity. He a' 'ended S\ Slanis- 
laus College, at Bay St. Louis also, 
He became a notary public at 21 years 
of age and a public accountant, which 
ojcupa'ions he follows. He is now 
engaged in the examination of titles 
for the Bowie Lumber Company, and 
in the capacity of notary. 

Although engaged at the present 
time in technical work Mr. Lasseigne 
spent his first years as a planter and 
notary, and his greatest interest to 
the pre.sent time is in the agricultural 
lesources of his parish and State. He 
1/as made a study of the sugar indus- 
try, with which his life work has been 
intimately as.sociated, and from ob- 
servation and experience is fitted to 
deal with the important problems 
which have assailed this industry dur- 
ing th'e past ten years. He has always 
been in close affiliation with the Dem- 
ocratic Party until the advent of the 
Independent Democratic or Progres- 
sive movement, and will remain the 
staunch friend of this industry as well 
as of the other agricultural pursuits 
for which Lafourche Parish is deserv- 
ingly reaching a high place in the 
records of Louisiana. 



S. W. MARTIN. 
Representative, Tensas Parish. 
A man who comes from the broad 
spreading fields of grain and sundry 
other crops, where the hand of the 
Master is made manifest in every 
blade of grass and every drop of 
water that bathes the thirsting earth, 
cannot fail to be imbued with the 
principles that makes this earth in 
which it is worth while to live. No 
man can come from such an environ- 
ment without being of a great help to 
the world and a blessing to mankind. 




The agricultural interests of this 
State are great, and we, of Louisiana, 
were destined by the Creator to be 
the producers of food for the hungry 
maws of part of the world. Repre- 
sentative Martin is a planter, very 
much interested in the rearing of good 
stock, and his farm is well supplied 
with the best that is produced. He 
also raises a great deal of cotton, 
the kingof the South, and in every 
way is making a complete success of 
his occupation. 

He was born in Baltimore, Mary- 
land, in 1854, and came to Louisiana 
with his parents the following year, 
and has lived here all his life. In 
1885 he married Miss Ella Hopkins, 
Tensas parish, and a thriving family 
graces this union. He first engaged 
in the occupation of a bookkeeper, 
but feeling the call of nature he quit 
this work and purchased a plantation 
and engaged in the planting indus- 
try. 

He was educated in the Brothers 
School, New Orleans, and in other 
higher institutions of learning. He 
is a Mason, a K. of P., and stands 
high in both these fraternities. He 
has served four terms in the Legis- 
lature, each time being re-elected by a 
handsome majority. 



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REP. CLAY J. DUGAS. 
Assumption Parish. 

Descendant from brilliant French 
ancestry and possessing the brilliancy 
of his forebears, Clay J. Dugas, Belle 
Rose, La., is one of the most popular 
men serving their maiden term in the 
House. Courtly in manner, eloquent, 
v.'ell qualified for the position, and 
alive to the opportunities which are 
knocking at the door of the Pelican 
State, this man bids fair to become one 
of the leaders, not of his section, for 
he is already that, but of the State of 
Louisiana. He was born at Paincourt- 
ville, La., on March 22, 1871, and 
moved to his present address in 1909. 

In 1S96 he was married to Miss 
Agnes Ganelloni, daughter of Damien 
Ganelloni, one of the belles of the sec- 
tion. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native parish and began 
life as a clerk in a country store. Now 
he is a sugar-cane planter and is be- 
coming very well-equipped financially. 
This is his first political office, which 
he is holding very nicely and capably. 
His grandfather was a member of the 
House before the civil war. His name 
was Xavier Dugas. His father, Clai- 
borne Dugas, was clerk of the court of 
Assumption for a number of years. 
Fraternally Mr. Dugas is a Maccabee. 



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REP. WILLIAM T. HODGES, 
La Salle Parish. 

Elected without opposition, enjoy- 
ing a large acquaintance over the 
State, Mr. Hodges, who was born at 
Rosefield, La., on Aug. 31, 1889, -ind 
who has lived there all his life, is in 
a position to render inestimable serv- 
ice to his State. He has always been 
a Democrat and has voted the ticket 
straight. In the recent election, April, 
5 916, he worked mightily to stem the 
tide of the Progressives in his parish, 
and was successful beyond his wildest 
dreams. 

This gentleman, for such he is of 
the old school type, was educated at, 
the Jena High School, Louisiana Stale 
Normal and Louisiana Industrial In- 
stitute, and then engaged in the teach- 
ing profession, where he has won the 
admiration, support and respect of 
the school authorities of his home par- 
ish, and is favorably known by th'j 
members of the State Department of 
Education. This has been done, not in 
a decade, but in a few short year?. 
Reared on a farm, Mr. Hodges brings 
to the service of his State experience 
gained, which at the present time is 
worth a great deal in leading Louisi- 



ana onward and upward toward? a 
higher life. 

Fraternally Mr. Hodges is a mem- 
ber of the Masons and of the Wood- 
men of the World. He is unmarried. 
He has stood for peace and harmonv 
and prosperity of his State and na- 
tion, to-day showing a very successful 
life. He forgets not a friend. 




REPRESENTATIVE NAT W. BOND. 
Orleans Parish. 

Among the many young men who 
are forging to the front as political 
leaders in Louisiana may be men- 
tioned Hon. Nat W. Bond, attorney, 
with offices at 909 Maison Blanche 
building. New Orleans, who was elect- 
ed to the Legislature in 1916, when 
only 23 years of age. Mr. Bond was 
born in the City of New Orleans Oct. 
14, 1892, and was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of the city, later entering 
Tulane University, from which he re- 
ceived his diploma for the practice of 
law. He entered at once upon the 
practice of his profession and has al- 
ready secured a substantial practice. 

Up to the present campaign Mr. 
Bond had not aspired to office. He has 
always taken a lively interest in the 
political affairs of his own ward (the 
Twelfth), and was consulted in the 



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councils of his party, but his connnec- 
tion with politics had been in the role 
of campaigning only for the general 
good of the cause, a work which 
brought him a large acquaintance. 
When the legislative campaign was 
approaching his friends urged him to 
become a candidate, and the selection 
met with such favor that he was suc- 
cessful in entering the House. Al- 
though his first term among State po- 
litical lights he has formed many 
friendships in the Capital City which 
will be an asset in his endeavor to 
represent his district acceptably and 
well. 





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REPRESENTATIVE TANDY T. 
WEBB. 

Ouachita Parish. 

Tandy T. Webb, member of the 
House of Representatives from Oua- 
chita Parish, was born in Barbour 
County, Alabama, on the 4th of No- 
vember, 1857. His parents moved to 
Louisiana just before the breaking out 
of the civil war, and settled in what 
is now known as Red River Parish. 
His father voluntarily joined the Con- 
federate army, and served continu- 
ously until the surrender of Mansfield, 
Louisiana. At the close of the war 
the family moved to Sparta, Bienville 



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Parish, where young Webb grew to 
manhood. When but a youth he took 
an active part in redeeming our State 
from misrule, radicalism and negro- 
ism. He received his early education 
at Sparta, Mt. Lebanon College, at 
the college that was then located at 
Homer, Louisiana. 

Mr. Webb was married to Miss Flor- 
ence Wilkins, Minden, Louisiana, in 
January, 1904, and two children grace 
this union, Miss Nellie Webb, a stu- 



dent of National Par''' Seminary, For- 
est Glen, Marylana, and Miss Caro 
Webb, who is a student in the city 
high school of Monroe, Louisiana, 

Mr. Webb moved to Monroe, Louis- 
iana in 1899, where he has since re- 
sided, being engaged in the real es- 
tate and timber business. He is an ar- 
dent friend of the Confederate vet- 
eran, the farmer, and union labor. In 
politics he is a Democrat and in re- 
ligion a Methodist. 




REP. JAMES BARRETT, 

Orleans Parish. 

James Barrett, member from New 
Orleans in the General Assembly, has 
just entered upon his twenty-first 
year as a member of the House, hav- 
ing been elected to his present office 



for the first time in 1896. Mr. Bar- 
rett is a Democrat, one of the party 
men of the old school, who do not be- 
lieve in allowing digressions for tem- 
porary ends, and whose affiliations 
have been always and ever with the 
organization, which holds him in the 
highest esteem. , 



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During his long service in the 
House he has passed through many 
grave and exciting experiences and 
his memoirs of various partisan ses- 
sions through which he has passed 
would be interesting reading, but he 
regards them as the most important 
and best acts of his political career, 
especially his vote to sustain the Dem- 
ocratic party against the Republican 
party in the General Assembly of 
1896. This was on the occasion of his 
first appearance in the House, but he 
stood firm then, as he has ever stood 
in subsequent years, for the political 



faith of his convictions against any 
and all odds. 

Mr. Barrett was educated only in 
the public schools, having not been ac- 
corded the advantge of college edu- 
cation. He attended St. Joseph's 
school at New Orleans and entered 
upon his life work as a clerk. In 1902 
he married Louise, daughter of Mary 
.Jackson and August Schindler, of 515 
South Gayoso street, New Orleans. 
The family residence is now at 517 
South Gayoso street, near the early 
home of the bride. In fraternal cir- 
cles he rejoices in a membership with 
the Order of Elks, in which he takes 
much interest. 




REPRESENTATIVE NAT D. COOKE. 
Orleans Parish. 



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REPRESENTATIVE W. R. MARTIN, 
Jefferson Parish. 



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R. L. GUILBEAU. 

The subject of this sketch was born in the town of St. Martinville, St. Mar- 
tin Parish, Louisiana, April 30, 1867. His early boyhood was spent in the town 
of Breaux Bridge, La. Mr. Guilbeau received his early education in the public 
schools of his native parish. In 1881 he pntered the freshman class of the 
University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and continued as a student there 
until 1884. Upon leaving Sewanee Mr. Guilbeau followed the occupation of 
teacher and farmer until 1887, when he entered the agricultural department of 
Louisiana State University. Mr. Guilbeau won the Alumni Medal at the Uni- 
versity in his sophomore year and graduated with honors in 1891. Immediate- 
ly after graduation Mr. Guilbeau entered the law department of Tulane Univer- 
sity and graduated in 1892. After two years of practice at the bar he was 
forced to abandon his profession on account of bad eyes, and engaged with 
his brother, Mr. F. T. Guilbeau, in the manufacture of cotton seed oil in St. 
Martinville. While attending to his duties at the oil mill Mr. Guilbeau also 
operated a model farm and dairy. In 1911 the manufacture of cotton seed oil 
becoming impractical on a-ccount of the boll weevil, Mr. Guilbeau accepted the 
position of teacher of agriculture at Ebenezer, La., resigning this position to 
accept a similar one in Carencro in 1913. In the fall of 1914 Mr. Guilbeau was 
offered the position of state inspector of agriculture, which he accepted, 



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CYRUS JAY BROM N. 

Born in Eastland County, Texas, in 1875; early life spent in southeastern 
Kansas, where he obtained his elementary and high school education in the 
public schools. Came to Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1893, and has lived in this 
state ever since. Taught country schools in Calcasieu parish under Superin- 
tendent John McNeese for three years; was principal of the Loreauville graded 
school, Iberia parish, for three and a half years; graduated at the State Normal 
in 1902; was principal of the Winnsboro, Jeanerette, and Plaquemine High 
Schools; became parish superintendent of Iberville in 1905; later served fifteen 
months as superintendent of the schools of Ascension parish; was appointed 
to the position of state supervisor of the rural elementary schools in Novem- 
ber, 1909, which position he has since held. Mr. Brown is in charge of the field 
force, supervising rural schools. He inaugurated the rural teachers' train- 
ing course at the State Normal School and directed its work for fifteen months. 
Mr. Brown is now president of the Louisiana State Public School Teacher's 
Association. 



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CLARENCE ALBERT IVES. 

Born at Vernon, Jackson parish, July 17, 1869; attended private schools and 
the Ruston College; entered the Louisiana State University in the junior class 
in 1891; graduated in 1893 with the degree of B. S. from the Latin science 
course; was first lieutenant of Company A and valedictorian of the class; at- 
tended the Chicago University in 1896. 

He has held the following school positions: principal of the Shiloh High 
School, taught one year in the sub-freshman department of the Louisiana State 
University, assistant principal of the Ouachita Parish High School, Monroe, 
La., principal of the Patterson High School three years, Franklin High School 
seven years, Minden High School six years. 

He was chairman of the executive committee of the State Teachers Associa- 
tion in 1901 and president in 1906; served as teacher and conductor in various 
state summer schools; elected state institution conductor in 1912 and Btate 
high sclbol inspector in 1914, 



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JOHN ROBINSON CONNIFF. I 

John Robinson Conniff was born in New Orleans January 20, 1874. His 
elementary education was obtained in the public schools of New Orleans. He 
was promoted to the high school in 1886, earning the Peabody Medal in the 
competitive entrance examinations to the high school. He received his secon- 
dary school instruction in the Tulane High School, from which he was regularly 
promoted to the College of Arts and Science of Tulane University. He was 
graduated from Tulane University in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 
and during his college career, earned the Glendy Burke Medals for oratory and 
declamation. 

After pursuing a course of law in the University of Virginia, he was elected 
in September, 189.5, as a teacher of Latin and English in the McDonogh High 
School for Boys in New Orleans, which position he held until he was appointed 
assistant superintendent of the public schools of New Orleans in July, 1901. 
As assistant superintendent of the schools of New Orleans until the death of 
Superintendent Warren Easton in October, 1910, Mr. Conniff was intrusted 
with the supervision of the work of the second.ary schools, high and normal, and 
of the grammar grade departments of the elementary schools. 

Prominent among his activities in the public schools of New Orleans stand 
forth his -successful efforts in the promotion and ci'eation of the departments 
of school hygiene, compulsory school attendance, and physical training of that 



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system. Though no longer connected with the public schools of New Orleans, 
Mr. Conniff still retains his interest in their work, as shown in his continued 
activity as secretary of the Public School Athletic League of that city. 

Upon his resignation as assistant superintendent of the public schools of 
New Orleans in November, 1910, he organised the Southern Seating Company 
of New Orleans, of whicli he was president, and from which he gained a very 
valuable experience in acquiring an intimate knowledge of school supplies and 
school furniture and their cost. In February, 191:^, he was elected chairman of 
the state examining committee of teachers, the position which he now holds in 
addition to that of state institute conductor recently bequeathed to him through 
the election of Mr. Ives to the high school inspectorship of the state. 

Mr. Conniff has always taken an active interest in the educational affairs of 
Louisiana, a fact which has been duly recognized by the teachers of the state 
in his election to the vice-presidency of the Louisiana State Public School 
Teachers' Association in 1904, and to the presidency of the New Orleans Educa- 
tional Association in 1910. 




J NO. M. FOOTE. 

Born in Centreville, Parish of St. Mary, in 1883; completed the course given 
in the public schools there in May, 1900; taught in the rural schools of Lafayette 
parish the following session, then entered the State Normal School and con- 



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tinued until graduation in 1903; served as principal of the Vinton School in 
Calcasieu parish for one session following graduation from the Normal School; 
taught a rural school in the Parish of Terrebonne one session and in the fall of 
1905 was elected principal of the Terrebonne High School; continued in this posi- 
tion un'iil 1909, ivhen olected superintendent of education for the parish; served 
as suporintrndent in Terrebonne until elected in 1914 by the State Board of Ed- 
ucation to the present position of assistant state supervisor of rural schools. 
The summers intervening between graduation from the Normal School and 
election to the position of parish superintendent were spent in attendance at 
r.ie S ato University and ihe University of Virginia. 




LAMAR BAKER. 

Lamar Baker was born in Arizona, Claiborne parish, March 3, 1885. He 
leceived his early education in the Arcadia Seminary and in the Arcadia High 
School, Bienville parish. He graduated with the B. A. degree from the Louis- 
iana State University in 1905. He taught in our public schools for two years, 
one year in West Baton Rouge parish and the other as first assistant in the 
Arcadia High School. In 1908 he was selected by Superintendent Harris as 
chief clei-k of the Department of Education, which position he has filled since 
his appointment. 



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- JOHN MARSHALL, Secretary to Governor Pleasant. 

Colonel Pleasant exercised fine judgment in selecting John Marshall, of Lake 
Charles, Louisiana, for his campaign manager. Mr. Marshall is a very young 
man in point of years but few men in the State have a better knowledge of the 
political conditions, and of the educational, financial, and social affairs of the 
State, .especially of the Southwestern tier of parishes. 

Mr. Marshall has been in the newspaper business all of his life, and he is one 
of the few men that made a success of newspaper work. For many years he 
was engaged in newspaper work in Lake Charles and other Southern cities, own- 
ing and-editing the Lake Charles Daily Times, which "Re sold a few years ago 
to the Lake Charles American Press. . ' 

It has been said and it has almost become an axiom that vou can forecast the 
success of any man by the judgment he uses in selecting his subordinates and 
assistants. . I can see for myself a brilliant future for .a'ny man who had the 
judgment to select John Marshall and to be guided by his advice and council. 
He has a pleasing personality, a wide knowledge of public matters, is a brilliant 
writer, and an indefatiga;ble worker, and I can say that it will be a pleasure 
for our fellow townsmen to go into the executive office for the next four years 
as long as John Marshall is a prominent deity. 



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WILLIAM HARTWELL TIPTON. 

"■"William Hartwell Tipton was born in Ruston, Lincoln parish, Louisiana. Oct. 
13, 1886. His early education was received in a private school In Lincoln parish 
and he graduated in 1909 from the Louisiana Industrial Institute, located at 
Ruston, winning the chemistry medal, offered for the best work in chemistry, 
and the alumni medal, offered for scholarship and deportment, in his junior and 
senior ysars, respectively. He taught one year in the public schools of Wash- 
ington parish and in the summer of 1910 accepted the position as assistant sec- 
retary to the State Superintendent of Public Education, which position he has 
filled since his employment. 



— Page One Hundred and Seve7if!/-two 




GROVER C. HUCKABY, Supt. of the Louisiana State School or the Blind. 

Grover C. Huckaby, Superintendent of the Louisiana State School for the 
Blind, at Baton Rouge, is a native of Louisiana. He was born on a farm in 
Red River parish, July 3, 1884, and is a son of Morgan Pickney C. and Martha 
Ellen (Turnbow) Huckaby. He received his early education in the public 
schools. As beneficiary cadet from Red River parish, he entered the Louisiana 
State University, from which institution he graduated in 1907 with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts. A short time previous to graduating Mr. Huckaby be- 
came a member of the faculty of the Louisiana State University, and for one 
year taught mathematics. The winning of a Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford 
University, England, enabled him to realize his ambition for a higher educa- 
tion. He left for England in September, 1908, and spent three years abroad. 
Returning to the United States in 1911, Mr. Huckaby accepted the position of 



— Page One Hundred and Seventy-three 



assistant principal of the Baton Rouge High School. A year later he became 
principal of the High School at Shreveport. This position he resigned to accept 
the superintendency of the Louisiana S.ate School for the Blind, to which he 
was elected in the summer of 1913. Mr. Huckaby has also been identified with 
sociological movements and is a leader of thought and progress. He is one of 
the organizers of the Southern Sociological Congress, and was one of vhe 
original members of the race prob'em committee of this organization. He :s 
a member of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography of ..he 
International Congress of School Hygiene, of the London Geological Associa- 
tion, and of the Royal Antropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 
Fraternally, he is a Royal Arch Mason. In 1911 Mr. Huckaby married Miss 
Anita Dalton Jones, the daughter of Dr. Philip H. Jones of Baton Rouge. 




DR. S. M. LYONS, OF SULPHUR, LA. 
Assessor. 
On the borderland between the United States and Old Mexico, way back 
yonder before the Mexican war, we find a large number of pure Americans 
that settled in the community, took up homesteads, and built their hom'es on 
the prairies. Among these intrepid and courageous settlers was the Lyons 
family, and the present character of our sketch, Dr. S. M. Lyons, is a de- 



— Page One Hundred and Seventy-four 



cendant of this Lyons family, and \>as born at Edgerly, La., on Dec. 27, 1868. 
About fifteen years ago he moved to Sulphur, La., the location of the richest 
and most profitable sulphur mines in the world. 

He married Miss Dellie Brussar, daughter of J. Brussar, of Calcasieu Par- 
ish, and was educated in private schools, at the Louisiana State University 
and a graduate of the Tulane Medical College of New Orleans, in the class 
of 1891. Dr. Lyons is a practicing physician. 

He belongs to a large number of fraternal organizations, the Masons ihe 
Knights of Pythias, W. O. W., Elks and several others. In politics he has al- 
ways been a Democrat, and for a number of years was president of the police 
jury of old Calcasieu, a position that had as much responsibility as a State 
Legislature. 

In 1916 he was elected assessor of Calcasieu Parish, and takes office 
Jan. 1, 1917. He served on the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State 
University. In the last election he made a strenuous campaign for his own 
election, and was largely instrum.ental in carrying the parish of Calcasieu 
for Governor Pleasant. ' 




VERNON L. CALDWELL, 
Senator Eleventh Senatorial District. 



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— Page One Hundred and Seventy-five 




S. B. JONES. 

S. B. Jones was born in the city of Baton Rouge, November G, 188G. ITe re- 
ceived his elementary education in the private schools of ihat city, afterward 
entering the State University, graduating in the arts and science ooursr; re- 
ceiving the B. A. degree. On completing his education he entered commerciai 
life as an employee of the firm of Jones- Whitaker & Co., of Baton Rcuge, re- 
maining with this firm until September, 1911, v^rhen he became assistant mana- 
ger of riobgood Plantation. He was holding this position when selected by 
Superintendent T. H. Harris as assistant secretary to the State Superintendent. 



—Page One Hundred and Seventy-six 




CHARLES FRANCIS TRUDEAU. 

The subject of this sketch was born at Hermitage, West Baton Rouge, De- 
cember 11, 1873. After attending the public schools of that parish until the 
age of 16, he entered the Louisiana State University, graduating in 1894 with 
the degree of Bachelor of Science. At the university he was awarded iwo 
medals for proficiency in the manual of arms, was second ranking man in his 
class, and, in his senior year, was captain of Company B. 

After teaching a small country school during the session of 1894-95, he 
entered the Louisiana State Normal School at Natchitoches, taking the teacher 
training course under Dr. B. C. Caldwell. He graduated from i-his institution 
in 189() and was successively principal of the following schools: Lafayette High 
School, Kouma High School, Poydras Academy, Hamburg (Ark.) High School, 
and Marksville High School. 

He was elected parish superintendent of education for the Parish of Pointe 
Coupee, October 14, 1904, and served in that capacity ten years. While in 
Pointe Coupee he was selected president of the fire company of New Roads at 
its organization, first vice-president of the National Bank, president of the 
Chamber- of Commerce, member of the board of directors of the Bank of New 
Roads. 

He re.dgned his position as parish superintendent September 2?,, 1914, to 
accept the position he now holds — that of state rural school supcrvisior. 



-Pape One Hundred and Seventy-seven 



SENATE CHAMBER, PRESIDED OVER BY - LLE.UTENANT GOVERNOR - 



MOUTON. 




From left vo right — A. G. Cook, Assistant Secretary of the Senate; Rev. 
Johns, Ciiaplain; Hon. Fernand Mouton, Lieutenant Governor; A. D. Stewart, 
Jr., Pa'ge;'0. H. Simpson, Secretary of Senate; I. H. Snyder, Assistant Sec- 
retary of Senate. 



Dr. 



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MR. O. H. SIMPSON. 

Oramel H. Simpson, Secretary of 
the Louisiana Senate, was born in 
Washington, St. Landry Parish, La., 
March 20, 1870. In 1876 his parents 
moved to Lafayette, La., where he re- 
sided until he came to New Orleans, 
in 1892 where he has lived ever tince. 
Mr. Simpson attended the public 
schools in New Albany, Indiana from 
1881 zo 1886 in which year he entered 
the freshman class at Centenary Col- 
lege at Jackson, La., from which in- 
stitution he was graduated in 1890. 
►From 1890 to 1892 he studied law, un- 
der Judge Conrad DeBaillon at Lafa- 
yette, La. In 1892 he entered the Tu- 
lane Law School of Tulane University 
and was graduated as valedictorian of 
his class in 1893. Mr. Simpson served 
the Louisiana Senate from 1900 to 
1908 as assistant secretary, in which 
year he was elected secretary and has 
held that position ever since. On 
September 6, 1899 he was married to 
Miss Louise E. Pichet, of New Orleans. 
Mr. Simpson is a 32nd. degree Mason, 
a Mystic Shriner, a member of Shali- 
mar Grotto, a Knight of Pythias, a 
Woodman of the World, a Rotarian 
and at present is Noble Arch of Fra- 
ternity Grove No. 57 of the Ancient 
Order of Druids. He is secretary and 



notary of the Excelsior Homestead 
Association and President of the Ko- 
nuiti Co., Inc., he is also on the board 
of directors of the Hemlock Indu.striai 
Life Insurance Company. 




ALBERT GEORGE COOK, 
Assistant Secretary of the Senate. 

Albert George Cook, of Monroe, La., 
was born Feb. 20, 186.5, at Clinton, 
La., and resided there until moving to 
Greensburg, La., in 1880. Later mov- 
ing to Amite City, La., in 1887, where 
he was wedded to Miss Ella Frierson, 
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. 
Frierson, of Amite City. 

Mr. Cook was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Clinton, La. He is an 
editor by profession, having begun as 
a printer's "devil" when a lad of fif- 
teen years. At present he edits the 
daily Monroe News-Star, an influen- 
tial Democratic journal at Monroe. He 
has been living at Monroe since 1906. 

Mr. Cook has been a close follower 
of politics. In 1900-1904 he was en- 
rolling clerk of the Senate, in the 
1904-08 session was promoted to chief 
enrolling clerk and in the session of 
1912-16 he was elected assistant sec- 
retary of the Senate, under Lieuten- 
ant Governor Barret. He was hon- 
ored again with the position under 



— Page One Hundred and Seventy-nine 



Lieutenant Governor Fernand Mou- 
ton, 1916-20. 

Mr. Cook is held in high esteem by 
his many friends throughout the 
State. He is a member of the F. & 
A. M. and W. 0. W. lodges. 




ANDREW BRADFORD B30TH, JR., 

Assistant Secretary of the State 
Senate. 

Mr. Booth, 29 years of age, was 
torn in the City of New Orleans 
April 20, 1887, and has lived there all 
his life. In 1915 he was married to 
Miss Anna M. Bultmann, also of that 
city. He received his education at 
the Chenet Institute, from which he 
was graduated. He then entered in 
the insurance business, becoming 
agent and afterwards special agent of 
the Travelers' Insurance Company. 
Thus he enabled himself to later at- 
tend Tulane University, where he was 
elected historian of his class. Presi- 
dent of the Tulane Law Debating 
Club and member of the Tulane Ora- 
torical and Debating Council. He re- 
ceived his degree of Bachelor of Laws 
in 1913, and immediately entered upon 
the practice of his chosen profession 
before the New Orleans bar, where he 
has earned merited recognition. Mr. 
Booth is a member of the Kappa Sig- 



ma College Fraternity, Forensic Club, 
University Club, New Orleans Chess, 
Checkers and Whist Club, Young 
Men's Department of the Association 
of Commerce, Camp Beauregard Sons 
of Confederate Veterans, Louisiana 
Historical Society, Woodmen of the 
World and American Legion. 

Mr. Booth's political career may be 
briefly stated as follows: 

Page House of Representatives, 
1900-1902; messenger of State Senate, 
1904-1908; Secretary Statistics and 
Budget Committee, Tax Commission 
of Louisiana, 1910 Assistant Secre- 
tary of the State Senate, 1908-1920; 
Assistant Secretary of Democratic 
State Central Committee, 1916-1920. 
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CONRAD B. LORET, 
Messenger for the Senate. 

Conrad B. Loret, a messenger for 
the Senate, was born at Patterson, 
Louisiana, on October 22, 1898, and 
moved to Baton Rouge, his present 
address, six years ago. He is unmar- 
ried and is a student at St. Vincent 
Academy, where he has won the sup- 
port and confidence of the faculty. 

He is a young man of fine personal 
appearance, a favorite with the Sena- 
tors, of retiring disposition, and is 
winning for himself a niche in the 



— Page One Hundred and Eighty 



history of the State, which he will ftll 
in the future with credit to himself 
and friends. He was a page in the 
House in 1912. 




DONALD A. DKAUGHON. 

Postmaster of the Senate. 

The postmaster of the Senate is 
eighteen years of age, having been 
born in New Orleans in 1898. He was 
graduated from the Boys' High School 
of his native city in 1916, and will 
enter the United States Military 
Academy at West Point in the fall of 
the year 1917. He began his political 
career in the House during the speak- 
ership of H. Garland Dupre, and is 
very fond of political life— as are all 
Scotch-Irishmen. 



JOSEPH C. CAMORA, 

Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the 

Senate. 

Mr. Camera, the assistant sergeant- 
at-arms of the Senate, was born in 
East Baton Rouge Parish, on Septem- 
ber 7, 1867, and has lived there all of 
his life. His address is 525 Fifth 
Street, Baton Rouge, La. He was mar- 
ried on September 18, 1889 to Miss E. 
Custable, daughter of F. H. Custable, 
of Baton Rouge, but of German de- 




Four 



ehihlrcn giace this 



scent, 
union. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of his native parish, and en- 
tered upon life as a clerk, but soon 
entered the mercantile business for 
himself, at which he is now engaged. 
He is a Woodman of the World, a F. 
O. E. and a Red Man. Mr. Camera is 
very popular with the members of the 
Senate. 



L. H. BROUSSARD. 
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, Senate. 

L. H. Broussard, sergeant-at-arms 
of the Senate, was born in 1853, at 
Lobdell, Louisiana, and moved to Port 
Allen, his present address, in 1893. 
He was married to Miss Margurite 
Tullier, daughter of Adolph Tullier, of 
Sardine Point, Louisiana, in the year 
1876, and now has five children, three 
boys and two girls, all of whom are 
living. The father is very proud of 
his children, and of the bright future 
which is spread out before them. 

He was educated in the P. H. Mur- 
phy Select School of Plaquemine, La., 
and engaged in life's battle as a la- 
borer, but has steadily risen until now 
he occupies a position of importance 
in the life of his community. He is 



— Page One Hundred and Eighty-one 




now sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, 
and comes in daily contact with the 
men who are writing the history of 
the State of Louisiana. He is a mem- 
ber of the Woodmen of the World and 
an Odd Fellow. 




ALFRED D. STEWART, 

Page in the Senate. 

Alfred D. Stewart, page in the Sen- 
ate, is the son of Major A. D. Stew- 



art, manager of the Cosmopolitan Ho- 
tel, and one of the best known poli- 
ticians in the State. Young Alfred 
is fourteen years of age, and is at- 
tending the E. B. Kruttschnitt School 
of New Orleans, Louisiana. 




HARRY M. GIEFERS. 
Page of Senate. 

Harry M. Giefers, page in the Sen- 
ate, is the son of R. Giefers, of New 
Orleans, Louisiana, who is one of the 
leading politicians in the Eleventh 
Ward of that city. Harry M. Giefers 
is fourteen years old, and attends H. 
W. Allen School of the Crescent City. 



GEORGE WARREN GOLDEN. 
Page in the Senate. 

George Warren Golden, who is 
serving in the capacity of page in the 
State Senate, is the son of A. J. Gold- 
en, a well known and influential citi- 
zen of Abbeville, Louisiana. George 
Warren is seventeen years of age, and 
a student of the public schools of Ab- 
beville. Being industrious, energetic, 
ambitious, and of a political turn of 
mind we cannot but predict a most 
prominent part in Louisiana politics 
for our young page. 



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WARREN COMISH. 

Page in the Senate. 

Warren Cornish, page in the Senate, 
is the son of H. T. Cornish of Den- 



ham Springs, Louisiana. Warren is 
attending the public schools of his na- 
tive town, and is a promising youth of 
fifteen. 



-Page One Hundred and Eighty-three 



JULIEN MENDELSOHN. 
Page in the Senate. 

Julien Mendelsohn, pge in the Sen- 
te, is the son of I. J. Mendelsohn, a 
leading merchant of the Capital City. 
Julien is an industrious and energetic 
boy of sixteen, and a student of the 
Baton Rouge High School. 



LEO L. AMISS. 
Page in the Senate. 

Leo Amiss, the son of John Amiss, 
a well known citizen of the Capitol 
City, is serving as page in the Sen- 
ate. Leo is sixteen years of age and 
a student of St. Vincent's Academy 
of his home town. Ke is well known 
and well liked both by the boys and 
the girls of the Capital City. 



is Billie well known in skating, danc- 
ing and social circles, but he burst 
forth to claim his share of honors of 
the forum. Billie is serving his con- 
stituency faithfully in the capacity of 
page in the State Senate. We cannot 
close without wishing our efficient 
page, dancer, skater, and society hero 
the greatest of success in these and 
other lines. We are as sure of his 
winning fame in the halls of renown 
as we are of the sun's rising in the 
East. 



CLIFTON BOURGEOIS. 
Page in the Senate. 

Among the responsible and distin- 
guished office holders of the State 
we find the name of Clifford Bourgeois 
of the Capital City, who is serving in 
the capacity of page in the State Sen- 
ate. Clifford is the seventeen-year- 
old son of Dr. C. Bourgeois, the lead- 
ing denti.st in this section of the 
State. Clifford is a student of the 
Baton Rouge High School, where he 
is a leader in the social circles and 
in literary achievement. We feel that 
the Legislature of 1916, and indeed 
the whole State of Louisiana, is for- 
tunately honored in having so effi- 
cient and distinguished a page. 



BILLIE COOTER. 
Page in the Senate. 

Among the pages in the Senate is 
to be found the sensational whirlwind 
skater of more than local repute. One 
who is in any way interested in the 
skating craze that is sweeping over 
the nation will know immediately of 
whom we refer. It is none other than 
Billie Cooter, our accomplished cham- 
pion of skating and dancing fame. 
Billie is sweet sixteen, but we cannot 
truthfully add the asculatory part of 
the famous epithet for Billie is well 
known as the girls' Billie. Not only 



SAM DUPUY, JR. 

Page in the Senate. 

Among the pages in the State Sen- 
ate is to be found Sam Dupuy, Jr., 
the son of Sam Dupuy, Sr., a leading 
pharmacist of the Capitol City. Sam 
is 14 years of age, and is already 
a leader among the youths of the 
Capitol City. He is attending the 
public schools of the city, where he 
has already won a name for himself 
in literary and scholastic achievement. 



TRAVIS DOMENGEAUX. 

Page in the Senate. 

Travis Domengeaux, the son of Sena- 
tor Domengeaux of Lafayette Parish, 
"is an ambitious youngster of thirteen 
years. Travis is serving in the State 
Senate as page, and is untiring in en- 
ergy and loyal devotion to duty. 
Travis possesses the admiring charac- 
teristics of his father, which will un- 
doubtedly reap for him a harvest of 
ripe fruit in Louisiana politics in a 
few more years. 



L. P. AMISS, JR. 

Page in the Senate. 

L. P. Amiss, Jr., the son of L. P. 
Amiss, Sr., a leading citizen of the 
Capital City, is serving in the State 
Senate as a page. Little Paul is thir- 
teen years of age and a student in the 
public schools of Baton Rouge, where 
he is well known and well liked. Being 
a hustler at such an early age we can- 
not but predict for him a leading part 
in his community in future years. 



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ENROLLING CLERKS OF THE SENATE. 



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1 Ross, 2 Morgan, 3 Adams, 4 Dowkins, 5 Ducote, 6 Settoon, T Skinner. 



MR. V. E. SETTOON, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the Senate. 

Mr. V. E. Settoon, of Springfiekl, 
La., was born there on the 29th day 
of July, 1892. He was educated in the 
public schools of Livingston parish, 
and later attended the Louisiana State 
University. 

Mr. Settoon served his occupation as 
clerk and is novif sei'ving in that capac- 
ity in the Enrolling Rooms of the Sen- 
ate. He has served in the Legislature 
at various times, having sei-ved as 
page and as messenger in the Senate. 
He is now Chief Enrolling Clerk of 
the Senate, and is a valuable asset to 
that chamber. 



siana avenue, New Orleans, his pres- 
ent address, in 1907. Mr. Roos is un- 
married. He was educated at Jack- 
son Boys' High School, Live Oak 
School and Louisiana Industrial In- 
stitute of Lafayette, La. 

For several years Mr. Roos was a 
clerk in the New Orleans Cotton Ex- 
change and then he took service with 
the United States government on the 
Panama Canal and served his govern- 
ment there for seven years. He is a 
K. of P. 



NESTER L. ROOS, 

Clerk, Enrolling Room of the Senate. 

A Texan by birth and a Louisianian 
by adoption is Mr. Nestor L. Roos. 
He was born at San Antonio, Tex., 
Jan. 16, 1886, and moved to 1317 Loui- 



D. P. KEPATRICK, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the Senate. 

Mr. Kepatrick was born at Cheney- 
ville, Louisiana on June 30, 1894 and 
now makes his home in Alexandria, 
Louisiana. He was educated in the 
public schools of Chenej'ville, Louis- 
iana and was a student in the Louisi- 
ana State University. He is unmar- 
ried and is a K. of P. Mr. Keputrick 
was a page in the House and is now 
an enrolling clerk. 



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R. J. SKINNER, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the Senate. 
Born in New Orleans, and residing 
there since his birth, and educated in 
the Jesuits' College of that city, is 
Mr. R. J. Skinner, enrolling clerk for 
the Senate, which is his first and only 
political office, but he is fulfilling his 
office with credit to himself and 
friends. 



EUGENE E. RONEGE, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the Senate. 

Eugene E. Ronege was born in New 
Orleans and has continued to leside 
whsre the stork left him, because he 
is a man that does not like radical 
changes. He is unmarried, but he is 
a great friend of the fair sex. He 
WPS er'ucEtcd in the Boys H'gh of 
New Orleans, graduating therefrom 
on Feb. 20, 1912. 



A. R. MORGAN, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the Senate. 

Beginning his political life as an en- 
rolling clerk is Mr. A. R. Morgan, of 
Crowley, La., where he was born on 
Jan. 19, 1895. Mr. Morgan was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Arcadia 
parish and graduated from the Louis- 
iana State University on May 29, 1916. 
He was reared on a farm and loves 
farm life. He is unmarried, liut is 
quite a ladies' man for he possesses 
those characteristics which endears a 
man to the feminine sex. 



LEE LANIER, 

Clerk, Enrolling Room of the House. 

Lee Lanier was born in Tangipahoa 
Parish and raised in .Jefferson and 
Orleans Parishes. He is a newspaper 
man by profession. He founded and 
edited many country newspapers in 
different sections of the United States. 
In Louisiana he edited, in turn, the 
Independent, the Ponchatoula Demo- 
crat and the Bunkie Record, all po- 
litical journals. He married a very 
charming lady, Miss Zita Reine, of 
New Orleans, thirteen years or more 
ago, and from this union sprang more 
children than there are digits on one 
hand. He is a dyed-in-the-wool, hide- 
bound regular Democratic ringster 
and does not care who knows it. 



O. A. FOURNET, 
Assistant Clerk of the House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

O. A. Fournet, who is serving in the 
House of Representatives as assistant 
clerk, was born Aug. 2, 1876, at St. 
Martinville, La. Mr. Fournet re- 
ceived his schooling in the public 
schools of his home town, after which 
he entered the Louisiana State Uni- 
versity. Mr. Fournet has been en- 
gaged in sawmill work, but is 
at present in the newspaper and 
publishing business. From 1906 to 
1910 he was secretary to Joseph Hy- 
ams. Speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and is now serving in the 
political capacity of assistant clerk of 
the House. 

In 1897 Mr. Fournet was married 
to Miss Eva Broussard, the daughter 
of Don Louis Broussard. 




EDWARD J. RUBER, 

Asst. Sergeant-at-Arms of the Hou.se. 

Mr. Huber was born and raised in 
the City of New Orleans and continues 
to live in that city. He was born on 
March 13, 1890, and i.s unmarried. He 
was educated in the public schools of 
the Crescent City and began life as 
a railroad clerk and is now in the 
marble business. He is a W. 0. W., 
a Catholic Knight and is President of 
the La Salle branch of the C. A. A. 



— Page One Hundred and Eighty-six 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, PRESIDED OVER BY HON. HEWITT 
BOUANCHARD, SPEAKER. 




Left to right, standing— S. G. Dupree, O. A. Fournet, Assistant Clerks. T. 
W. Campbell, Chief Clerk, Hon. Hewitt Bouanchard, Speaker; E. J. Tallien, J. 
J. Collins, and W. D. Bishop, Assistant Clerks. 



— Page One Hundred and Eighty-seven 



MR. SAMUEL G. DUPREE, 

Special Agent Louisiana Board of 
Health. 

Samuel G. Dupree was born Jan. 4, 
1876, in Baton Rouge, La., where he 
attended the public schools. He went 
to Kentucky Military Institute and 
graduated from the Louisiana State 
University in 1896. Next he took a 
law course in the Tulane University 
of New Orleans. In 1902 he was mar- 
ried to Leonie Demouy, of Mobile, 
Ala., from which union one child — 
Samuel, Jr. — has been born. He was 
connected with the Southern Pacific 
railroad at New Orleans, but later 
went into the insurance and real es- 
tate business in Baton Rouge. Later 




he was connected with the government 
postofRce, and afterwards with the 
United States marshal's office. In 
1913 he was assistant secretary of the 
Constitutional Convention of that year 
and has been calendar clerk in the 
House of Representatives since 1912. 
He is at present special agent of the 
Louisiana State Board of Health. He 
has always taken a prominent part in 
politics as a staunch Democrat. 




T. W. CAMPBELL. 

Clerk, House of Representatives. 

Mr. Campbell was born in New Or- 
leans in 1854, and has lived there, 
with short exceptions, practically all 
his life. His address is now 500 South 
Pierce Street, New Orleans, Louis- 
iana. In 1907 he married Miss Mar- 
ian H. Maupay. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native city and 
took his law degree at the Luisiana 
State University. Some step from 
steamboating to an attorneyship at 
law, but Mr. Campbell made it. 



EMILE J. TALLIEU, 

Assistant Clerk of the House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

Emile J. Tallieu, assistant clerk of 
the House, was born in the Parish of 
Assumption April 3, 1877, and is now 
living at Napoleonville, La. Mr. Tal- 
lieu received his schooling at St. Mar- 
tin private school in Assumption Par- 
ish. Mr. Tallieu has held several po- 
litical offices, including that of chief 
deputy sheriff, justice of the peace 
and assistant clerk of the House. 



— Parjc One Hundred and Eighty-eight 




EMILE J. TALLIEU, 
Assistant Clerk of the House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

JOSEPH J. COLLINS, 
Assistant Clerk of the House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

Joseph J. Collins, assistant clerk of 
the House, was born in Biloxi, Miss., 




educated at St. Alphonsus' Parochial 
School in the City of New Orleans. 
He has been assistant clerk of the 
House for the last ten years, and when 
not engaged in legislative work is in- 
spector of the Sewerage and Water 
Board of the Crescent City. 

June 19, 1907, Mr. Collins was mar- 
ried to Miss Rosa Davis, the daugh- 
ter of James B. Davis. 




Aug. 3, 1885, but is now a resident of 
New Orleans, La. Mr. Collins was 



WILLIAM D. BISHOP. 
Assistant Clerk House. 

Mr. William D. Bishop was born 
April 2fi, 1878, in Natchez, Miss., 
where he was educated in the public 
schools. Mr. Bishop was first em- 
ployed as clerk on a steamboat, and is 
a steamboat pilot when not working 
in the Legislature, where he has 
served as clerk for three terms. 

Mr. Bishop was married to Miss 
Gertrude Lockwood, daughter of Gil- 
bert Lockwood, of Baton Rouge, La., 
where he has made his home since 
marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have 
two children, both girls; one two years 
of age, and the other five months. 

Mr. Bishop is a member of the W. 

O. W. 



— Page One Hundred and Eighty-nine 




THOMAS J. RYAN. 

Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Represn- 

tatives, for 26 Years. 

Changing administrations have had 
no effect upon the tenure of office en- 
joyed by Thomas J. Ryan, the vet- 
eran sergeant-at-arms of the House, 
who has held his sway as peacemaker 
in that body for 26 years. Born in 
New Orleans, he has held residence 
in that city all his life, coming to the 
Capital City on each session of the 
Legislature for more than a quarter 
of a century. 

In 1898 he married Miss Josephine 
Johnson of New Orleans. He first 
engaged in the capacity of inspector, 
later securing a position as an officer 
in the Civil District Court at New 
Orleans, and became docket clerk in 
the Criminal Court of New Orleans, 
where he enjoys a wide acquaintance. 
He is a member and active worker in 
various societies affiliated with the 
work of the Catholic Church, in his 
native city and his high standing with 
Louisiana's law-makers is attested by 
the remarkable period of unbroken 
service, which has been accorded to 
him by each succeeding session since 
1890. 




ARTHUR J. THOMAS, 

Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the 

Hojse of Representatives. 

Arthur J. Thomas was born at Co- 
lumbus, La., on March 17, 1884, and 
moved to Baton Rouge, La., his pres- 
ent address, in 1908. He was married 
to Miss Catherine Shea, daughter of 
Patrick Shea, of Binghampton, New 
York, on July 12, 1913. 

He was educated at Dickinson Seir.- 
inary, Williamsport, Pa., later gradu- 
ating in Uiw from the Louisiana State 
University. Immediately after gradu- 
ation he entered upon the practice i, l 
his chosen profession at the bar in tiio 
city of Baton Rouge, where he has 
built a lucrative practice. 

The subject of this sketch was as- 
sistant sergeant-at-arms during tha 
latter part of the session of 1914, and 
so well did he perform his duties that 
he was elected for the session of 1910. 
Mr. Thomas is a Mason, an Elk, a 
Woodman, a member of the Theati Pi 
Pi and of the Louisiana State Univer- 
sity Alumni Association. 



— Page One Hundred and Ninety 




MR. J. D. SMITH, 
Door Keeper of the House. 

When fifteen years of age Mr. J. D. 
Smith enlisted in the Confederate 
army and served throughout the re- 
mainder of the war and was dis- 
charged from the army at Galveston, 
Tex. He was born at Tallepoosa, 
Ala., Jan. 17, 1847, and moved to 
Homer, La., in 1876, where he has 
lived since He was married to Miss 
Mary Wilkinson of Georgia. He has 
held various political offices. In 1893 
he was appointed inspector of Customs 
and served five years; in 1912 he was 
elected postma:;ter of the Senate; and 
at present is the efficient door-keeper 
of the House of Representatives. 



G. B. NORRIS. 
Postmaster, House of Representatives. 

Mr. Norris was born at Lenoir, 
Louisiana, on May 27, 1895, and has 
spent his time there since. He was 
educated in the public schools of his 
native town, later attending the Pine- 
ville Baptist College at Pineville, La. 
He is engaged in the planting indus- 
try in his native section, and likes it 
So well that he thinks he will continue 
in that occupation. When the post- 
mastership of the House, in the regu- 
lar session of 1916, became vacant 
through the resignation of Mr. Do- 





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Department of Agriculture, Mr. Nor- 
ris was nominated to take his place, 
and received the position without a 
single dissenting vote. He is the son 
of Representative Norris. 




CHARLES RICHARD DORAN, 
Postmaster of the House af Represen- 
tatives. 
Charles Richard Doran was born at 
Lake Providence, La., Aug. 19, 1891, 



-Page One Hundred and Ninety-one 



and continues to make that his home. 
He was appointed by the present 
Legislature as postmaster of the 
House of Representatives, where he 
comes in daily contact with almost 
every member of that body. 

He received his early education at 
St. Patrick's Parochial School, and is 
now a senior in the Louisiana Stale 
University. He receives his degree I't 
the end of the 1915-16 session. He 
held the position of corporal of "U'' 
Company in 1913-14, was first ser- 
geant of "A" Company in 1914-15, and 
is. cadet major of battalion in this the 
1915-16 session. 

Mr. Doran has had service with the 
United States in the Department of 
Agriculture, and is a member of the 
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MR. C. E. ROY, 
Secretary to the Speaker of the House. 

Mr. C. E. Roy, Secretary to the 
Speaker of the House, was born in 
the town of New Roads Aug. 20, 1892. 
Mr. Roy received his schooling in the 
public schools of his home town, 
graduating from New Roads High 
School. Mr. Roy, realizing that the 
only education is a practical one, is 
studying law in the office of Senator 
Provosty. When the time came for 



the Legislature to convene in Ea'oi 
Rouge, Mr. Roy accompanied our ab'e 
Speaker of the House and is now 
serving him in the capacity of Secre- 
tary. Mr. Roy belongs to the order 
of the Woodmen of the World. 




W. E. RONIGER. 
Paymaster, House of Representatives. 

After all what most of us are in- 
terested in is the money that we get 
for our services, and so the gentleman 
of this sketch is a very important fig- 
ure in the political life of Louisiana, 
especially with the members of the 
House. He was born in New Orleans 
and lives there now. His address is 
2734 Cleveland Avenue. After receiv- 
ing his education in the public schools 
and high schools of his native city, he 
began life as a clerk for a large ware- 
house concern in New Orleans, and 
continues to work for them. He mar- 
ried Miss Nell Donnelly, a charming 
young lady of New Orleans. 

He is a member of the Brotherhood 
of Railway Clerks. Mr. Roniger 
served as an enrolling clerk in the 
House of Representatives for several 
years and then, after faithful service 
he was promoted to the paymaster- 
ship. 



-Page One Hundred and Ninety-two 





BURT LOMAX, 
Chief Enrolling Clerk, House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

Perhaps no individual within the 
confines of the House is better knov.n 
by Louisiana's lawmakers than Burt 
Lomax, who has held the position of 
chief enrolling clerk since 1908, and 
was chosen for this responsible posi- 
tion again at the opening of the pres- 
ent session. Mr. Lomax was born at 
Simmsboro, La., Jan. 4, 1885, but re- 
moved to Ruston in 1910, where he 
has since made his home. He married 
Miss Crotia McLaughlin, of Ruston, 
daughter of M. C. McLaughlin, Dec. 
31, 1911, and became interested in iho 
lumber business, which occupation he 
has followed to the present time. 

Mr. Lomax attended the public and 
high schools of Simmsboro, La., 
afterwards entering the Louisiana 
Industrial Institute at Ruston. He Is ■!. 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and 
his popularity among the lawmakers 
may be gaiaged by the fact that he has 
held the place of honor among the 
large roster of clerks in the House 
through the varying fortunes of thrne 
administrations. 



T. P. GARRETT, 
Unrolling Clerk, House of Represen- 
tatives. 

T. P. Garrett, who has just been 
chosen as enrolling clerk of the House 
for his third term, was born in Plain 
Dealing, La., Nov. 2.3, 1883, and at- 
tended school at Redland, La., takinij 
up farming in his native communii;,,i, 
and later engaging in the business of 
nurseryman. Oct. 29, 1904, he married 
Miss Sophie, daughter of J. C. John- 
son, of Redlands, La. 

Upon organization of the House .)t 
Representatives in 1912 Mr. Garrct.t 
was chosen as one of the clerks of the 
House, and so well did he perfonn his 
services in this po.sition that he \\-as 
chor;en to succeed himself in the pres- 
ent Legislature. He is a member of 
the Woodmen of the World and Wood- 
men Circle, and is known personally 
by every member of the House with 
whom he is daily thrown into intimate 
contact. 



— Page One Hundred and 'Ninety-three 



Er,R1LlJNG CLERKS OF THE HOUSE. 




1 Garrett, 2 Atkins, 3 Ryan, 4 Phillips, 5 Whittington, 6 Frantz, 7 Lanier, 8 Hubert, 
9 Williamson, 10 Johnson, 11 Morgan, 12 Lomax. 



— Page One Hundred and Ninety-four 



MATT HUBER, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the House. 

Despite an injury received in his 
early youth, a handicap to almost any 
other person in the game of life, Matt 
Huber, the subject of this sketch, 
manages to go through a daily rou- 
tine of work with an ease that is a 
real inspiration to his more fortunate 
brethren of sound limbs and body. 

The physical infirmaties have in no 
wise impaired his splendid mental 
powers, his exceedingly cheerful dis- 
position and his usefulness. 

Mr. Huber was born in the City of 
New Orleans Oct. 1, 1892, and was 
educated in the primary and high 
schools of that city, later taking a 
course in and graduating from the 
New Orleans College of Pharmacy. 
While his occupation is that of a 
pharmacist, he is possessed of a 
strong liking for politics, and finds 
much enjoyment mingling with the 
members of the Legislature of his na- 
tive State. This accounts for his 
presence in the enrollment room dur- 
ing the regular session of 1916. 

Matt is a good mixer and afforded 
his co-workers no end of pleasure by 
his affable presence during the term. 

He can always be found by ad- 
dressing him at his residence, 2011 
Washington avenue, New Orleans, 
where he is always glad to receive 
his friends. 



J. H. WILLIAMSON, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the House. 

Mr. Williamson was born in Indi- 
ana and educated at Wabash College, 
in Crawfordsville, Ind., and is a jour- 
nalist by profession, covering political 
assignments. His present address is 
New Orleans, La., where he was for- 
merly connected with the Times-Pica- 
yune and other papers. Mr. William- 
son is a Mason. 



R. N. WHITTINGTON, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the House. 

A contractor, with his greatest in- 
terest in politics, is Mr. R. M. Whit- 
tington, Alexandria, La., one of the 
clerks in the enrolling rooms of the 



House. He was born April 13, 1886, 
at Alexandria, and was educated in 
St. Francis Xavier College of that 
town. After finishing his education 
at the above mentioned school he be- 
gan life as a timekeeper for a con- 
tracting firm. 



J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, 

Clerk, Enrolling Room of the Hou.se. 

He was born in Monroe, La., July 9, 
1894, and was educated in the Ben- 
ton High School, Benton, La., Cen- 
tenary College, Shreveport, and Loui- 
siana State University, where he is a 
student in the law department. His 
home is now in Shreveport. He is a 
Mason and a member of the Kappa 
Alpha fraternity. 



A. B. ATKINS, 

Clerk, Enrolling Room of the House. 

Born at Athens, Louisiana, Mr. At- 
kins was educated in the public schools 
of that city and then entered the Lou- 
isiana State University where he is 
now studying law with the expectancy 
of graduating in 1917. He was born 
on March 27, 1895 and is unmarried. 
He entered L. S. U. in the fall of 1912 
and took two years of academic work 
and then took up the study of law. He 
has just finished the second year's 
work and expects to graduate in the 
spring of 1917. 



MICHAEL F. RYAN. 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the House. 

Born in the city of New Orleans 
on November 3, 1877, Mr. Michael 
Ryan has lived there all his life. He 
was educated in the public schools of 
his native city, and began life as a 
clerk. He was deputy clerk. Civil Dis- 
trict Court of New Orleans; deputy 
Register of Voters; Sergeant Harbor 
Patrol Board, Board of Port Commis- 
sioners of the city of New Orleans. 
He is greatly interested in politics and 
takes an active interest in all politi- 
cal questions. He was married to 
Rosetta Lenox. 



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Pages of House, 1916. 




WILLIAM M. PHILLIPS, 
Clerk, Enrolling Room of the House. 

Mr. Phillips was born on Septem- 
ber 28, 1890, near Opelousas, Louisi- 
ana, his present address, and is a law- 
yer by profession, having recently 



graduated from the Louisiana State 
University with M. A. and LL.B de- 
grees. He is a member of the fol- 
lowing Greek letter fraternities: K. 
A.; T. K. A.; Sigma Delti Chi; and 
Delta Kappa Alpha. 



-Page One Hundred and Ninety-six 



W. W. MAGEE. 
Clerk, Enrolling Rooms of the House. 

From the Parish of Washington, 
imbued with the spirit of the great 
man for which this parish is named, 
comes W. W. Magee, as one of the 
honored employees of the House, 
whose duties as enrolling clerk brings 
him in daily contact with almost every 
member of the House. The subject of 
this sketch is unmarried, but is quite 
a ladies man. He was born in Wash- 
ington Parish, and has spent his life 
there. He was born on September 10, 
1891, and was educated in the public 
and high schools of his parish and be- 
gan life as a mercantile clerk, after 
which he entered the schools as a 
pedagogue, where he has won the fa- 
vorable comment of his parish and 
State authorities for the soundness 
and smoothness of his work. 



CHARLEY HENRY. 
Baton Rouge, La. 

Among the Capitol City's contribu- 
tion to the House is to be found Char- 
ley Henry, who is using his time 
profitably in the lower house. Char- 
ley is fourteen years of age, and has 
been a hustler from infancy. He is 
never to be found loafing or playing, 
but is always busy at work as his bank 
account will no doubt collaborate. 



SAM ROBERT.SON. 
Baton Rouge, La. 

Now we come to a name that has 
added prestige and honor to Louis- 
iana in the halls of the national Con- 
gress. Sam Robertson is the son of 
Marshall Robertson of the Capitol 
City, and the nephew of Colonel Rob- 
ertson, who so ably represented the 
State of Louisiana in the national 
House of Representatives. Sam is 
thirteen years of age, a pupil of the 
Baton Rouge High School, and an in- 
dustrious, energetic, and ambitious 
youth, who is undoubtedly to prove 
himself a worthy successor to his il- 
lustrious family. 



DEWITT RABENHORST. 
Baton Rouge, La. 

Dewitt Rabenhorst, the son of Os- 
car Rabenhorst, a successful "South- 
ern planter," is serving in the House 
of Representatives as page. Dewitt 
is sixteen years of age, a pupil in the 
Baton Rouge High School, and a leed- 
er in amateur athletics. When the 
House convened under its able Speak- 
er, Dewitt was to be found among 
those ambitious and likable chaps who 
vent to his political ambitions. 



E. T. PREJEAN, JR. 
Mark, La. 

E. T. Prejean, Jr., is the son of E. 
T. Prejean, Sr., of Mark, Louisiana, 
E. T. Jr., is seventeen years of age, 
an industrious and hard working 
chap, who is always ready to serve 
his State and incidentally himself pe- 
cuniarily. E. T., Jr., is ambitious to 
become one of Louisiana's leaders, so 
thought it wise to spend two months 
in the employ of the State to find out 
how it felt. Since he has liked it so 
well he has decided to become a true 
and worthy Dem.ocrat, as our friend 
William Jennings would have it. 



EDWARD JOLLY. 
Baton Rouge, La. 

Edward Jolly, the son of Ed Jolly, 
a leading dentist of the Capitol City, 
is working as page in the House of 
Representatives. Edward is thirteen 
years of age, and a student of the 
Baton Rouge High School. Ed is 
well known and liked by the boys and 
girls of Baton Rouge. 



SAM KILLINGER. 
Marksville, La. 

Sam Killinger hails from the par- 
ish of Avoyelles, which was instru- 
itnental in turning in the election of 
our Democratic Governor. When Sam 
saw so many other good Democrats 
coming from his home parish to share 
the triumphs of Democracy, he 
thought it was high time that he 
should come along and help eat the 
pie. Sam is seventeen years of age, 
full of life and energy, and a likeable 
chap, who will no doubt leave his 
"footprints n the sands of time." 



-Pafie One Hundred and Ninety-seven 



JAMES BROWN. 
Baton Rouge, La. 

Although only ten years of age 
James Brown of the Capitol City is 
a page in the House of Representa- 
tives. Though handicapped in size 
and age, he is recognized as one of 
the liveliest chaps yet on the job. 



WILLIE WALSH, 
Baton Rouge, La. 

Willie Walsh, the son of Willie 
Walsh of Baton Rouge, is working as 
pnge in the House of Representatives. 
When the House was looking for 
pages they picked out Willie because 
they knew they were getting one who 
would earn his remuneration. Willie, 
Jr., is only twelve years of age, but 
he is a smart chap, as his teachers in 
the public schools of Baton Rouge, 
will bear witness. 



NED WILSON. 
Mandeville, La. 

St. Tammany Parish is represented 
among the pages of the House in the 
person of Ned Wilson, of Mandeville. 
Ned is a hustler of thirteen years, 
who is serving his parish along with 
its other representatives in the House 
of Representatives. Ned is always to 
be found on the job, and gives full 
service for his pecuniary remunera- 
tion. 



BENTON SNODDY. 
Marksville, La. 

Hailing from the fertile sands of 
Avoyelles, where the mocking birds 
sing from January to January, and the 
magnolias bloom from June to June, 
is Benton Snoddy, who is serving his 
parish and State in the responsible 
and honored capacity of page in the 
House of Represetatives in which as- 
sembly is to be found the leaders in 
all phases of State activity. Benton 
is only sixteen years of age, but al- 
ready gives vent to an ambition to be- 
come a leader in the political life of 
his native State. In closing this short 
but appreciative sketch we cannot but 
shower our blessings on a fellow- 
Louisianian. 



F. B. FOLKS. 

Star Hill, La. 

F. B. Folks, the son of Representa- 
tive Chester H. Folks of West Felici- 
ana Parish, is already a shining star 
in the halls of fame. F. B. bids fair 
to follow in his father's footsteps as 
he is even now found among the lead- 
ers of Louisiana's political life. F. B. 
is only sixteen years of age, but is 
possessed of remarkable ability as a 
leader and as a student. He is a stu- 
dent in the public schools of West Fe- 
liciana, where he is well known and 
well liked. As all great men get their 
start as youths in ranks of the profes- 
sion they intend to follow it is but 
reasonable to predict that F. B. is to 
make of himself a citizen of whom 
Louisiana will be justly proud. 



A. GUIRORICH. 

New Orleans. 

Among the energetic and hard 
working pages of the House is to be 
found our distinguished son of the 
Crescent City, A. Guirorich. When 
the bugle call of the Legislature 
sounded on the 7th of June, 1916, 
Master Guirorich was among the first 
to answer its call. He is an ambitious 
youth of sixteen years, a pupil in the 
public schools of New Orleans, and a 
leader among the young politicians of 
the State. With his untiring energy, 
persevering devotion to duty, unfal- 
tering ambition, and attractive per- 
sonality he bids fair to claim as his 
own the leading honors of this old his- 
toric State. 



WILLIE JEFFREY. 

Baton Rouge, La. 

Among the Capitol City's young 
leaders in the House of Representa- 
tives, is to be found the name and 
personality of Willie Jeffrey, who is 
serving his city, parish, and State in 
the position of page of the House. 
Willie is fourteen years of age, a pu- 
pil in the public schools of Baton 
Rouge, and a well known and well 
liked young man. 



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HON. HAYDEN W. WREN, 
A True Democrat. 
"Let the Fur Fly." 
"A Tribute to the Living." 

Here's to fair-weather friends — 

You'll find them always about; 
But here's to one — good old scout — 

Who's there, boys, when you're all in, down and out. 

Hayden W. Wren is not of the fair-weather variety. He is the sort that 
dives quickly and deeply into his jeans after his last dollar when he hears 
the SOS emanating from a less fortunate fellow-man. Generous to a fault, 
he derives an immeasurable pleasure in assisting a friend or in rescuing the 
downtrodden. 

Born in Tangipahoa Parish, Hayden W. Wren stands resplendent with all 
the true virtues of a native son of that fair section of Louisiana. The per- 
sonification of simple truth, honesty and integrity, he is regarded by his per- 
sonal friends as being endowed with these richest gifts from J^other Nature. 
Descendant of one of Louisiana's pioneer and foremost families, he upholds 
tiie pride and traditions of the Wren family, which has so indelibly written 
its name on the pages of the history of the grand and great old State of Lou- 
isiana. 

The sterling qualities of character possessed by Dr. Wren, who, in 1803, 
was appointed territorial surveyor of Louisiana by Van Buren, the then pres- 
ident of the United States, and later reappointed by Jackson and Taylor, are 
reflected in the great-grandson, Hayden W. Wren, of New Orleans. 

While Hayden has held several minor State positions, he has held none 
greater than that which he holds upon the hearts of those to whom he turned 
a listening ear in their hour of distress and upon the aff'ections of his family 
and friends, who know the real man as he really is. No statesman, ruler or 
favorite can ascend higher in the estimation of this humble writer than Hayden 
W. Wren. This testimonial is to the living, not the dead, and comes unsolicited 
from one who truly appreciates a loyal friend, LEE LANIER. 



— Page One Hundred and Ninety-nine 




ANDRE M. MARTIN. 

Member of the State Board of Ap- 
praisers. 

Andre M. Martin is the best known 
citizen in Southwestern Louisiana. He 
has not only held various political of- 
fices, but has been an active citizen 
in every walk of life. He was born 
in Lafayette in 1851, and was married 
to Miss Sofia McBride, the daughter 
of R. L. McBride, in 1876. Mr. Mar- 
tin is a linguist, and is fluent in both 
French and English. He was edu- 
cated at the St. Charles College at 
Grand Coteau, and in the public 
schools of Lafayette. From 1876 for 
a period of sixteen years he was clerk 
of court of Lafayette Parish, and for 
twelve years later served as assessor 
under the Heard and Blanchard ad- 
ministrations, and was elected a mem- 
ber of the Board of Appraisers in the 
last election, without any opposition. 
When a boy Mr. Martin was appoint' 
ed page in the Legislature when the 
carpet baggers and negroes were in 
control of the State's political ma- 
chinery, and under unusual circum- 
stances Mr. Martin and other white 
pages in the House were made to 
march under a negro banner through 
the street. He is a staunch and loyal 
Democrat, and why shouldn't he be? 
for he lived throughout and experi- 



enced the fearful government of the 
Republicans and negroes together with 
the carpet baggers in this State. He 
has many friends throughout the 
State, as well as in Southwestern 
Louisiana, is a loyal and true Demo- 
crat, a good friend and an implacable 
enemy. 




THOMAS J. BUTLER. 
Custodian of the State CapitoL 

On November 4, 1844, in Decatur 
County, Georgia, there was born 
Thomas J. Butler, the custodian of 
the State Capitol at Baton Rouge, 
who lives at Ponchatoula, La. He was 
educated in Mount Lebanon Univer- 
sity, Homer College, under Professor 
J. W. Nicholson, and the Kentucky 
Military Institute from 1867 to 1870. 

Mr. Butler has been a member of 
the Legislature representing the par- 
ish of Bienville, and was appointed 
Register of the United States Land 
Office in New Orleans by Senator 
Gibson, in 1886, and served in that 
capacity until 1891. He represented 
Louisiana at the World's Fair in Chi- 
cago in 1893, and served as Superin- 
tendent of the money order depart- 
ment in the New Orleans post office 
from 1894 to 1900. In 1912 he was 
appointed by Governor Hall on the 
State Board of Education. 



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JUSTIN FRANCIS DENECHAUD. 

Justin Francis Denechaud, Secre- 
tary of the Immigration Division of 
the Louisiana State Board of Agri- 
culture and Immigration, born June 
23, 1863, was educated in the public 
schools of New Orleans and is a 
graduate of Soule's Business College. 
Engaged in hotel business practically 
all of his life and founded the com- 
pany which built and operated the 
New Hotel Denechaud, now known as 
Hotel De Soto. Operated for many 
years the hotel known as The Inn, also 
associated with his father in the man- 
agement of the West End Hotel, and 
managed Krantz Hotel at Grand Isle. 
Was appointed Secretary of the Im- 
migration Division of the Louisiana 
State Board of Agriculture and Im- 
migration in 1911, which office he still 
holds, and in this capacity has done 
much in bringing capital and settlers 
to his native State. Was lately ap- 
pointed member of the advisory board 
of twelve named by the conference 
called by Secretary Wilson of the De- 
partment of Labor for the purpose of 
solving the problem of unemployed 
labor. Elected State Senator 1896, 
and was the author of the resolution 
that caused the Legislature to direct 



the Attorney General to file suit to 
revive the charter of the New Orleans 
Water Works Company, which re- 
sulted in the City of New Orleans be- 
ing able to construct its own water 
works plant without regard to the 
franchise rights of the water works 
monopoly. Has always taken an ac- 
tive interest in all public and civic 
masters affecting the City of New Or- 
leans or the State of Louisiana. 



MR. DELPHIN DESDURIES. 
Cjmmittee Clerk to Hon. John I)y- 

mond, Sr., in the Senate of liMH. 

Mr. Delphin Desduries of New Or- 
leans was born June 23, 1874, in New 
Orleans, has been a student there in 
the public schools, and was married to 
JVIiss Camille Ivey on the 28th day of 
January, 1902, and has been living in 
New Orleans all of his life. In 
New Orleans his occupation is as- 
sistant clerk to Assessor Fred B. 
Schmidt, and in the Senate he is serv- 
ing as committee clerk to Hon. John 
Dymond. P. Eugene Desduries, his 
father, was an active member of the 
School Board at the time of his death 
in 1882 in New Orleans; his mother 
was the daughter of Alcebade De 
Blanch, justice of the Supreme Court 
of Louisiana, and is still living. 

Mr. Desduries has two children, 
one, a boy of .seven, and the other, a 
girl of ten. He is a Woo<lman of the 
World, and the recording secretary of 
the Young Men's Benevolent Associ.n- 
tion of his own citv. 



WILLIAM S. LOCKWOOD. 

Assistant Sergeant-at-Aarms of the 
Senate. 

Mr. Lockwood was born on Decem- 
ber 11, 1888, in the city of Baton 
Rouge, where he continues to live. In 
1900 he was married to Miss Mollie 
Trahan, daughter of Leman Trahan of 
Baton Rouge. 

He was educated in the public 
schools of the city of Baton Rouge, 
and began life as a clerk. He is now 
in the employ of an express company 
in his home town. He was a police 
officer of Baton Rouge for four years. 



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During the late session of the gen- 
eral EEScmblv, Mr. Brisbane was a 
Senate clerk, and made a fine record. 



SHERARD BRISBANE. 

Sherard Brisbane, of New Orleans, 
forged rapidly to the political front. 

He was for several years secretary 
to Attorney General R. G. Pleasant, 
but resigned his position to take an 
active part in the gubernatorial cam- 
paign. As assistant to Mr. John M. 
Marshall he did much brilliant and 
notable work in the interest of Colonel 
Pleasant in the primary campaign, 
that Mr. Marshall recommended to the 
Democratic State Central Committee 
that Brisbane be retained as his as- 
sistant in the campaign against the 
Progressive-Republicans. 

Mr. Brisbane was assistant secre- 
tary-treasurer of the Democratic 
State Executive Committee. In that 
capacity he had entire charge of 
campaign working department, an' 
acquitted himself of his many duties 
in a thorough and masterly manner 
and won universal commendation. 

United in a brilliant brain and 
steadfast character, Sherard Bris- 
bane possesses a most charming per- 
sonality that exerts a delightful influ- 
ence over all with whom he comes in 
contact. He is the son of Dr. Howard 
P. Brisbane and Margaret Hunt Bris- 
bane, the well known Southern poet. 




GEORGE W. FOSTER. 

Chief Inspector of Feeds and Ferti- 
lizers. 

Mr. George W. Foster, Chief In- 
spector of Feeds and Fertilizers, was 
born in Algiers, La., Feb. 20, 1866. 
Mr. Foster was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of the city of New Orleans, 
and in Holy Name of Mary of that 
city. 

Mr. Foster was married to Miss 
Mary Murtrgh, now dead, the daugh- 
ter of P. J. Murtagh. Mr. Foster 
s::arted life as a messenger boy for 
the M. L. & T. R. R. Co., of that city, 
and is now Chief Inspector of Feeds 
and Fertilizers. For eight years Mr. 
Foster has been in the Inspection De- 
partment of the State Board of Ag- 
i':culture and Immigration as Inspec- 
tor at New Orleans. He always lead 
the department in the number of in- 
spections made and largest tonnage. 

Fraternally Mr. Foster is a mem- 
ber of the Elks, W. O. W., Benevolent 
Knights of America, and several other 
benevolent associations in the city of 
New Orleans. 



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M. L. ALEXANDER. 

M. L. Alexander, President Conser- 
vation Commission of Louisiana, and 
a man of affairs, is Vice-President 
American Fisheries Society, Louisi- 
ana Forestry Assocation, the Nation- 
al Association Fish and Game Com- 
mission, and National Association 
Conservation Commissioners, and is a 
member of and associated with a num- 
ber of other like commissions. 

In the social life of New Orleans, 
Mr. Alexander is a member of the 
Chess, Checkers and Whist Clu'), 
Round Table Club and Press and 
Yacht Clubs; is also a member of the 
Association of Commerce of New Or- 
leans. Was married to Miss Nell-e 
Luckett on June 12, 1888, and from 
this marriage there are three chil- 
dren, Ethel, Constance and Maik 
Leigh, Jr., Alexander. 



CONRAD J. LECOQ, 
New Roads, Louisiana. 

Conrad J. Lecoq was born in the 
town of New Roads, Pointe Coupee 
Parish, Nov. 4, 1879. Shortly after 
his birth his parents removed to the 
City of New Orleans. He received his 
education in the public schools of New 
Orleans and at Soule's Commercial 
College. 



In 1897 he returned to Pointe 
Coupee and entered the commercial 
life of the parish. In 1901 he mar- 
ried Blanche E. Way, the daughter 
of Judge A. T. Way, of Williamsport, 
La. He became a traveling salesman, 
holding this position for one of the 
prominent firms of the State for three 
years, finally resigning to become as- 
sistant postmaster at New Roads. 
Then he entered the newspaper field, 
founding the Pointe Coupee Echo. 
Shortly afterwards he purchased the 
Pointe Coupee Banner, the old- 
est paper in the parish, and which 
is presently owned and edited by him. 
In 1910-11 Mr. Lecoq was President 
of the Louisiana Press Association. 




He is at present President of the 
Louisiana State Firemen's Associa- 
tion, being chief of the crack New 
Roads Fire Department. He is a 
prominent member of the Ma- 
sons, Woodmen of the World, Knights 
of the Maccabees, Ben-Hur and ot^c* 
fraternal organizations. During the 
recent campaign Mr. Lecoq managed 
the campaign of Hon. Ferd C. Clai- 
borne, who was a candidate for Lieu- 
tenant Governor. He is clerk of Ju- 
diciary A and the joint judiciary com- 
mittees of the House of Representa- 
tives and a candidate for State Fire 
Marshal. 



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CAPT. E. J. REINHART. 
New Orleans, La. 
Captain E. J. Reinhart was born, 
as the fates had decreed, long befora 
the founding of this terrestial sphere, 
on the 3d day of April, 1858, in the 
City of New Orleans, which was then, 
and now is, the greatest cotton export 
center in the world. As you note, 
our hero was born two years before 
the "popgun" struggle between the 
States, possibly accounting for his jo- 
vial and cheerful nature. Education 
was the least of our young prodigy's 
troubles, for he received his worldly 
store of knowledge on the gangplanks 
and decks of the nautical traveling 
steamboats of the Mississippi. Captain 
Reinhart launched on the troublesome 
and stormy sea of life as deck sweep- 
er on the steamboats that plied the 
Mississippi between St. Louis and 
New Orleans, the home of our infant 
prodigy. Becoming so proficient in 
this responsible office, our hero 
climbed further up the ladder of suc- 
cess, and finally landed on the step 
of market collector in the City of New 
Orleans. Captain Reinhart held this 
high and important office until the city 
administration, in order to continue 
getting its share of the "pie," was 
forced, for economy's sake, to give our 



hero his shipping papers, which our 
hero felt constrained to accept. Get- 
ting rid of a job that he by no means 
liked, he served in the gubernatorial 
capacity of Representative from the 
Parish of Orleans for many years. 
Now, gentlemen, this makes our hero 
an ex-statesman, and it is not neces- 
sary to state some politician. Of 
course, our hero is a Democrat — a 
pure Democrat — and, unlike most 
Democrats, not an office-seeking Dem- 
ocrat. Captain Reinhart's political 
nature recoils before the idea of being 
dictated and bossed by some pee-wee 
politician, who, because he is a leech 
on the people, thinks he knows it all. 
We admire our hero's honest convic- 
tions and hope he will steer through 
life's troublesome sea like the old 
steamboat pilot that he is. 

A man of Captain Reinhart's char- 
acter, ability and good looks could not 
long remain single. Sept. 12, 188.5, he 
was accordingly married to Miss Wil- 
hemena Nolteng, the daughter of 
Henry Nolteng. 



DR. A. W. TURNER. 

State Superintendent of the Anti-Sa- 
loon League. 

Dr. A. W. Turner, State Superin- 
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, 
while holding no office under the 
State, is a strong factor in Louisiana 
politics, and attends every session of 
the Legislature in the interests of the 
prohibition parishes, and the prohi- 
bitionists. Mr. Turner was born in 
Livingston Parish, on September 29, 
1866, and is married to Miss Mary A. 
Morgan, the daughter of John H. Mor- 
gan and Rebecca Morgan. 

What education he has was acquired 
through the public schools and his own 
efforts. He worked on a farm for 
years, and by diligent efforts prepared 
himself for the ministry, and is an ac- 
tive Methodist minister of the Gospel 
as well as the secretary of the Anti- 
Saloon League. 

He belongs to a number of fraternal 
organizations, among them the Ma- 
sons, the Woodmen of the World and 
the Odd Fellows. 




MKIIBICHS OF Till'; IIOAKU OF KaCAUZATION. 

(1) H. E. Estorage, {2) R. W. Kiordan, (3) H. O. Pondvr, (4) J. K. Gaiidet, (5) B. H. McLen- 
don, chairman; (6) J. M. Oliver. 




MliJLBKllS OP THE BOARD OF E^UALIZATIO. 

(7) P. C. Glynn, (8) J. St. Clair Pavrot, Secretary; (9) T. L. Hood, (10) P. R. Jacobs, clerk; 
(11) Claude Gonsonlin, page; (12) J. E. Millet, clerk. 



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The State Board of Equalization. 



The State Board of Equalization was created by Act No. 182 of 1906, orig- 
inating from House Bill No. 154, introduced by Mr. Sheldon Toomer of Cal- 
casieu Parish. Governor Blanchard, who fostered the measure, said vhat :'t 
was the first step in the direction of complying with that mandate of the Con- 
stitution requiring that "taxation shall be equal and uniform." The Act 
was amended by Act No. 220 of 1910, giving the board more power of super- 
vision over the assessors, and remedying some of the more patent deficiencies 
existing in the original Act. The first board was composed of seven members, 
one from each of the then seven congressional districts, as follows: First Dis- 
trict, R. W. Riordan, New Oi-leans; Second District, J. K. Gaudet, Gretna; 
Third District, A. M. Martin, Lafayette; Fourth District, W. M. Wallace, 
Winnfield; Fifth District, E. H. McClendon, Homer; Sixth District, Thomas C. 
Glynn, Covington; Seventh District, Opelousas. The clerical force of Aie 
board for the first four years of its existence was as follows: W. 
N. Curley, secretary, Lake Charles; A. R. Beark, assistant secretary, 
New Orleans; F. A. Voorhees, assistant secretary, Opelousas, and Logan Rich- 
arme, Garyville. In 1911 the board in its second term was composed as fol- 
lows: First District, R. W. Riordan, New Orleans; Second District, J. K. Gau- 
det, Gretna; Third District, A. M. Martin, Lafayette; Fourth District, W. M. 
Wallace, Winnfield; Fifth District, E. H. McClendon, Homer; Sixth District, 
Thos. C. Glynn, Covington; Seventh District, C. W. Payne, Montgomery. The 
clerical force of the board during this term was as follows: George W. Horton, 
secretary. Baton Rouge; J. St. Clair Favrot, assistant secretary. Baton Rouge; 
W. B. Hart, assistant Secretary; Edgard Hy. Martin, messenger, Lafayette. At 
the 1912 session of the board the membership was the same, except that Mr. 
E. H. McClendon was elected chairman, to succeed W. M. Wallace, who re- 
signed to become district judge of his parish, and Mr. R. W. Oglesby became a 
member of the board from the newly created Eighth Congressional District, 
making an additional member to the board. On January 4th, 1915, the board 
organized for its third term as follows: First District, R. W. Riordan, New 
Orleans; Second District, J. K. Gaudet, Gretna; Third District, J. M. Olivier, 
Arnaudville; Fourth District, E. H. McClendon, Homer; Fifth District, T. L. 
Hood, Monroe; Sixth District, Thomas C. Glynn, Covington; Seventh District, 
H. E. Estorge, Opelousas; Eighth District, H. O. Ponder, Forest Hill. The 
clerical force of the board during this term was as follows: J. St. Clair Fav- 
rot, secretary; Eugene Dlmez Edgar, assistant secretary; J. E. Millet, Edgard, 
assistant secretary, and Claude Gonsoulin, of Opelousas, as messenger. It will 
be seen that four members of the board, Messrs. McClendon, Glynn, Riordan 
and Gaudet have served continuously since the organization of the board, and 
Mr. Estorge is serving a second term after an intermission of one term. The 
board has preserved its office at the State Capitol for the past nine years, and 
sits annually on the second Tuesday in July for a term of sixty days, for the 
purpose of equalizing the assessments on taxable property throughout the 
State. , 



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« HENRY MOONEY. 

Lawyer, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Was born at Hammond, Louisiana, November 2, 1874, and is a son of the 
late Henry Clay Mooney and Harriet V. A. Waterman. He was educated 
in the public and private schools at Hammond and Tulane University, New 
Orleans, Louisiana, graduating from the law department of Tulane in the 
class of '98. 

He recruited a company for service in the Spanish-American War, and 
this company, being consolidated with Company "C" of the Seventh Batal- 
ion, afterwards Company "F", Second Louisiana Volunteers, he was com- 
missioned a first lieutenant, serving in this country and Cuba, until the 
company was mustered out at the close of the war. 

In politics he* is an unswerving Democrat. In January, 1900, he was 
appointed assistant district attorney for the Parish of Orleans, resigning 
in 1908 to take up the general practice of law. In 1909 he was admitted 
to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. He was alternate 
delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore that nomin- 
ated Woodrow Wilson. He was elected and served as a member of the 
Constitutional Convention of 1913. He is lecturer on commercial law at 
Loyola Law School, and is a member of the Boston and Choctaw Clubs, 



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the American Bar Association, and the Louisiana Bar Association. 

Following the teachings of a devoutly religious mother, Mr. Mooney is 

a member of the Episcopal Church, and deeply interested in its work. In 

November, 1905, he married Miss Clara Keppler, daughter of Christian L. 

Keppler, of New Orleans, and they rejoice in three splendid children, two 

daughters and a son. 




HON. WM. H. BYRNES, JR. 

William H. Byrnes, Jr., attorney, born in New Orleans, La., April 24, 1881, 
is a son of Col. William H., and Ellen (Concry) Byrnes. Graduating from the 
Georgetown University in 190?), with the degree of A. B, Mr. Byrnes attended 
the Tulane University in 1904, graduating with degree of LL. B., and in 1913- 
had conferred upon him by Loyola College degree of doctor of laws. Admit^ 
ted to practice in 1904, and giving much of his time and labor to the cause 
of Democracy, Mr. Byrnes was elected in 1912 to the State Senate, and en- 
joys the distinction of having introduced the bill that provided the commis- 
sion form of governm.ent for New Orleans. Is a member of the Knights of 
Columbus, an Elk and other fraternal orders, and of several clubs, including 
the Pickwick and the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club. Mr. Byrnes is a bril- 
liant writer and eloquent speaker and is frequently called upon because of his 
oratorical powers. 



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L. J. RICAUD, 
Commissioner of Finance. 

L. J. Ricaud, Commissioner of 
Finance of the city of Baton Rouge, 
was born in Ascension Parish Oct. 12, 
1874. Mr. Ricaud received his early 
scholastic training in the private 
schools in Ascension Parish. Aug. 8, 
1910, he was married to Miss Nettie 



May Pilcher, the daughter of S. J. 
Pilcher, of New Orleans, La. 

Commissioner Ricaud served the 
city of Baton Rouge as city treasurer 
from 1908 to 1914. When the com- 
mission form of government was 
adopted by Baton Rouge Mr. Ricaud 
became . its first Commissioner of 
Finance and is now serving in that 
capacity. 




GEORGE W. GARIG, 
Commissioner of Public Parks and 

Streets. 
Geo. W. Garig, City Commissioner 
of Public Parks and Streets of the 
City of Baton Rouge, was born in this 
city and has been a resident herein all 
of his life. Mr. Garig received his 



schooling in the public school and at 
Louisiana State University. On June 
10, 1903 he was married to Miss 
Aminie Craft, the daughter of George 
B. Craft. 

Mr. Garig is very closely connected 
with and interested in civic improve- 
ment of every sort. Since his service 



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3s City Commissioner under the Com- instigated many improvements in the 
mission Form of Government, he has Capital City. 




HON. ALEX. GROUCHY, JR. 
Mayor of Baton Rouge. 

Hon Alex. Grouchy, Jr., the first mayor of Baton Rouge, La., under its new 
commission form of government, was born in New Orleans, March 23, 1871, 
but has spent practically his entire life as a resident of the Capital City, where 
are centered his private and civic interests. He was educated at Spring Hill 
College, at Mobile, Ala., but returned immediately to his native State, where 
he engaged in the hotel business with his father, Mr. A. Grouchy, Sr., and 
other associates. In this occupation he has been signally successful, both 
father and son being most favorably known to the traveling public over a wide 
stretch of country. 

Shortly after the Istrouma was erected at Baton Rouge, in response to a 
popular demand for a high class hotel, which should be in keeping with the 
importance of the city as a State capital, Mr. Groucny was called to the man- 



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agement and its success has been due largely to his managerial ability and 
ability for making friends among the business men, who meet the traveling 
public. This splendid hostelry has become one of the chief rallying points for 
political leaders of all factions, during the important sessions at the State 
House, and is universally known throughout this and adjoining States. 

Mr. Grouchy has shown a deep interest in civic aff?-.irs for many years, and 
served as a member of the city council during the administration of Mayor 
Roux. At the death of the latter, during his term of office, he was elected 
by the city council to fill the unexpired term. Just prior to this period, a 
popular wave of sentiment was passing over the country in favor of the com- 
mission form of municipal government, which was adopted for Baton Rouge, 
as it had been for scores of American cities. Mayor Grouchy became a can- 
didate for the office of Mayor, under the commission form, and although the 
campaign was warmly contested, he was elected by a comfortable majority. 

He entered upon his work as the head of the city government, with an 
honest motive for improvement, and has worked hard and conscientiously with 
that end in view. Under his direction, working in harmony with his two as- 
sociates in the Commission Council, the city has gone forward until it stands 
in the vanguard among municipalities throughout the South. Sewers have 
been constructed, streets improved, sanitary abuses corrected, and city 
thoroughfares beautified until even the pessimistic citizen cannot but admit 
that Baton Rouge, under the progress of improvement, has become a better 
place in which to live. 

Mr. Grouchy takes his public service seriously, and although having con- 
siderable public interests here, he spends the full measure of his allotted time 
in his offices at the City Hall, each day, attending to every detail of the work. 
He has been a prominent figure in the sessions of the State Mayors' Associa- 
tion, since its organization, and at the last meeting was elected president of 
that body. Many delegates come to this city from other places to inspect its 
system of improvements, and learn how the local government is conducted, and 
all are courteously received by the head of the councilmanic body, who makes 
every effort to see that they are properly entertained. His administration has 
been a success, both from the standpoint of local results and the advertise- 
ment which comes to Baton Rouge because of public service well performed. 

In fraternal and social circles he is equally will known, and his services as 
a public speaker is always in demand. He never refused the call of charitable 
organizations, when it is at all possible for him to spare the time, and takes 
a lively interest in their various endeavors. He is a member of the Elks, Red 
Men W. O. W., and other organizations. He has held every office of honor 
in the B. P. O. E., and in 1914 was appointed district deputy grand exalted 
ruler of the order, by Grand Exalted Ruler John P. Sullivan, which appointment 
proved popular with the State membership. 



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PRESIDENT, PAST PRESIDENT, SECRETARY AND TREASURER 
BATON ROUGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 





JOE RA.AIIRES, 
Ex-President Chamber of Commeicf. 



H. PAYNE BREAZEALE, 
President Chamber of Commerce. 





FRANK H. KEAN, 
Treasurer Chamber of Commerce. 



G. A. WATERMAN, 
Secretary Chamber of Commerce. 



No greater badge of honor can be worn than that of activity in the Chamber 
of Commerce and its hospitalities to the political leaders who visit Baton 
Rouge. 



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SOLON FARRNBACHER. 

This well-known business man, 
though not active in polities, is per- 
haps one of the most extensively 
known men in Baton Rouge, and 
Louisiana. He does not hesitate to 
make his selections at election time 
of those men he thinks will best rep- 
resent the general good of the State, 
and votes accordingly. However, Mr. 
Farrnbacher is best known for his en- 
terprise and boosting qualities, and 
his quiet unostentatious charity. He 
always has a kind word and cordial 
greeting for every one he comes in 
contact with. 




JOHN B. RUCKER, 
Traffic Manager Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

The fellow that always lends a 
helping hand in a worthy cause, and, 
being a Kentuckian, the latchstrings 
always hang without. 



EDWARD SHIELDS. 

Assistant to the Sergeant-at-Arms of 

the Senate. 

Mr. Shields was born in New Or- 
leans in 1894, and continues to make 
that his home. Although engaged in 
the painting business he finds time 
to come to Baton Rouge and assist 
the sergeant-at-arms. 



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DAVE H. BROWN. 
Of the Louisiana Chronicle Democrat. 

Dave H. Brown, the compiler of this 
volume, was born in FayetteviUe, 
Tennessee, on October 5, 1889, but 
moved to Birmingham, Ala., when 
only three months old, where he lived 
until five years of age. His parents 
then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and 
his father engaged 'n the hay busi- 
ness. Young Dave ('rove the hay 
bailer team when onlv five years of 
age, and continued working with the 
hay baleing crew until thirteen years 
of age. 

Being reared on a Texas farm, Dave 
learned the lessons of industry and 
resourcefulness early, which have in- 
fluenced and characterized his en- 
deavor as a business man since. At 



the age of thirteen his parent.s moved 
back to Birmingham, A'a. Dave re- 
ceived very little educ.'ition in Texas, 
having never attended a full term in 
all. When he had finished the fifth 
grade in the public schools of Birm- 
ingham, Ala., he got a position as er- 
rand boy in a drug store, and, bein^ 
of a practical turn of mind, attended 
night school at Massey Business Col- 
lege. After finishing the business 
course, Dave, but sixteen years of age, 
but full of energy and ambition, be- 
gan life as a typewriter salesman. In 
the same year, 1906, he went into the 
typewriter business for himself. In 
the following year, 1907, he marriel 
Miss Georgia May Tomlinson, of 
Birmingham, who was only fifteen 
years of age. 

In 1908 he disposed of his typs- 
writer business, and again became a 
traveling salesman for the different 
typewriter companies, and in 1914 he 
was made manager of the Royal 
Typewriter Co., in Birmingham, Ala. 

In October, 1915, he came to Lou- 
isiana and entered the newspaper 
business, soliciting for special edi- 
tions. 

Seized with a desire to meet the po- 
litical men of the State, and to learn 
their history, he got the contract with 
the Louisiana Chronicle Democrat to 
compile this issue of "Who's Who in 
Louisiana Politics." In this capacity 
he has personally met every State of- 
ficial, Senator and Representative, as 
well as hundreds of other political 
men in Louisiana. Mr. Brown is a 
hard, energetic and ambitious work- 
er, and is bound to rise high in the 
world. 



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the upbuilding of New Orleans, and 
is regarded as one of the leading men 
ill his profession. 



DR. MERRICK WARD SWORDS. 

Merrick Ward Swords, one of the 
prominent physicians of New Or- 
leans, was born at Big Cane, La., in 
the year 1883, and after an educ;-,- 
tion in the public schools, attended 
the Tulane University, graduating 
from the Medical Department in 1907, 
and immediately entered the practice 
of his chosen profession. Dr. Swords 
enjoys a wide popularity and prac- 
tice throughout the State of Louis- 
iana, and is a member of several 
medical associations, including the 
Louisiana State Medical Association, 
the Pan-American Medical Associa- 
tion, the Orleans Parish Medical As- 
sociation and the Southern Medical 
Association. Dr. Swords is also a 
member of Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks, a Regular Democrat 
and takes an active interest in his 
party's politics. A scholarly gentle- 
man and man of affairs, he is held in 
high esteem by the medical profes- 
sion of Louisiana, and enjoys a lucra- 
tive practice throughout the Crescent 
City and the State. Dr. Swords is a 
live wire, and is prominently identified 
with every movement looking toward 




.11 in.E KRHARD B. OTERO. 

Judge Richard B. Otero, familiarly 
known to his friends as "Dick," has 
been identified with the Democratic 
party since attaining his majority and 
he has always taken an active inter- 
est in the politics of his native city 
and State. 

Judge Otero was born in New Or- 
leans in 1869; he attended the public 
schools, Springhill College, and in 
1894 graduated in law from Tulane 
University. 

In 1912 Judge Otero, as a candidate 
for Congress, received one of the 
largest votes ever given to an inde- 
pendent candidate. He has always 
made his fights within the party ranks 
and is recognized as a stalwart Dem- 
ocrat. In the City of New Orleans he 
has a large following, who are ever 
ready to support him or his friends 
for public office. 

The judge is a great admirer of 
Governor Pleasant and gave him a 
most hearty support. 



-Page Two Hioidrcfl and Sixiecn 



No man has more friends in this 
State, and they delight in hailing him 
on every hand and wishing the best 
of success. 




J. F. Hodge is one of the most po] 
ular and enei-getic insurance experts 
in the State, having been engaged in 
this work all of his active businr: 
life. He was born in Walnut Lane, 
Union Parish, this State, and was ed- 
ucated in Centenary College, Jackson, 
and the State Normal, at Natchito- 
ches. In the former institution he 
worked his way through ly waitin 
on the table and at other pursuits 
such as made young men able to se- 
cure education who lacked the means. 
His tenacity of purpose won for him 
in his school work as it has in after 
life as a business man. 

For ten years Mr. Hodge has been 
a resident of New Orleans, most of 
the time woi-king for the insurance 
agency of Hartwig Moss Company, 
who are Southern managers for the 
New Amsterdam Casualty Insurance 
Company. 

Mr. Hodge, as will be noted, was 
born in the same parish as was Gov- 
ernor Ruffin G. Pleasant, and has 
been a great admirer of the Gover- 
nor, and supported him in all his po- 
litical aspirations. 



HON. M. J. ROONEY. 

There are very few people in New 
Orleans who do not know Mike J. 
Rooney, who resides in Algiers, and 
who has for several years held the 
responsible position of chief clerk to 
Mayor Behrman. Not only is Mr. 
Rooney "hail fellow well et" to 
every one who is worthy, but he is a 
true friend to those in trouble. There 
is not a gram of hypocritical blood in 
his body. His position is a very try- 
ing one, requiring both ability and 
singular, even temperament, but Mike 
is equal to it, and he has made one of 
the best records of any one who has 
ever filled a similar position in the 
history of the city. He is familiar 
with every detail of his work and 
knows a great deal about every depart- 
ment with which he must be familiar 
in order to carry on his work. He 
probably answers more questions dai- 
ly about every department in the city 
than any official, and more than earns 
his pay. 



-Pnr/e Two Hundred and Seventeen 




A. D. STEWART. 
Manager Cosmopolitan Hotel. 

If one wants to interview any one 
of the leading politicians of the Dem- 
ocratic party he need look no further 
than the Cosmopolitan Hotel at New 
Orleans. This popular hostelry has 
become the political Mecca of the 
State. Governor Pleasant had his 
headquarters there, and every Demo- 
crat in the State interested in politics 
at different times in the late campaign 
could be found there. 

The fact that the Cosmopolitan 
Hotel has become political headquar- 
ters for the State of Louisiana is not 
an accident, however. The reason is 
that the owners of this hotel were wise 
and fortunate enough to secure A. D. 
Stewart for their manager. Mr. Stew- 
art is one of the best known men in 
this State, and in every acquaintance 
he counts a friend. This popularity and 
hosts of friends have been a great 
asset to him as manager of the hotel. 
He knows every politician in the State 
by their first name. 

Aside from his acquaintance, Mr. 
Stewart, better known as "Major," is 
giving his guests all that could be ex- 
pected of an up-to-date modern hotel. 
Service and courtesy are the watch- 
words of his policy. 

In the two cafes, Royal and Bour- 



bon, that are run in conjunction with 
the hotel, are dining places of great 
popularity. Fine French cuisine, ex- 
cellent service and high-class enter- 
t:iinment have made these the most 
favored dining places in New Orleans. 




ISAAC L. HAAS. 
Alternate Delegate to National Demo- 
cratic Convention, 1916. 

Isaac L. Haas was born at Colum- 
bia, Louisiana, in the year 1883, and 
moved to Monroe, Louisiana, his pres- 
ent address, in 1902. Mr. Haas is 
unmarried but is a great ladies man. 

After receiving his secondary edu- 
cation in the public schools of his par- 
ish, he entered Jefferson College, Mis- 
sissippi, and finished the course 
there. Then he entered Soule College 
in New Orleans. Almost immediately 
he entered in business as a real estate 
man, at which he has ever since been 
engaged. 

He was lieutenant to Mayor A. A. 
Forsythe of Monroe, Louisiana. He 
has always taken an active part in 
politics of his native city and parish, 
and the Democratic party of the Fifth 
District honored him by electing him 
as an alternate to the National Demo- 
cratic Convention, which, in 1916, is to 
be held in the city of St. Louis. 



— Page Tiro Hundred and Eiiihteen 



iiy 



lent his aid in getting the proper 
schooling. He is an able public of- 
ficial and excellent citizen and his 
home people love him because they 
know him. 




L. H. MARRERO. 

Sheritf, Jefferson Parish, La. 

L. H. Marrero, Sr., the efficient and 
courageous Sheriff of Jefferson Par- 
ish, is shown above. A famous man 
once said, "We love him for the ene- 
mies he has made." Sheriff Marrero 
has buffeted the waves of criticism 
for a long time successfully. No more 
persevering and faithful officer ever 
served the public than Sheriff Mar- 
rero. He was born in 1847 and made 
a reputation as a Confederate soldier. 
His son is the able District Attorney 
of the Twenty-eight Judicial District, 
composed of the parishes of Jefferson, 
St. Charles and St. John the Baptist. 
In 1896 Colonel Marrero was elected 
Sheriff of Jefferson Parish and has 
been elected his own successor since 
that date. The public knows Sheriff 
Marrero and appreciates his worth. It 
is no exaggeration to say that no man 
has done more for charity and helping 
those in need than Sheriff Marrero. 
He also enjoys the distinction of hav- 
ing done more to bring enterprises, 
manufacturing plants and investment 
of capital in Jefferson Parish than 

any other one in the parish. 

■ It has been his pleasure to assist 
scores of young men and women to 
obtain employment, and he has also 



.MR. .VRTHLR O'KEEFE. 

From one end of the city to the 
other, and in most parts of Louisiana, 
Arthur J. O'Keefe is well and favor- 
ably known. He has made his own 
way, and b.v steadfast devotion to his 
duties and sincerity of purpose Mr. 
O'Keefe has made himself respected 
and his advice sought on business sub- 
jects as well as political matters. His 
success has been brilliant as well as 
an example to young fellows just 
starting in a commercial life. 

Mr. O'Keefe was born and reared 
ii. the Tenth Ward, in the vicinity of 
the Magazine Market, and since he 
became of age has taken active in- 
terest in politics and the advancement 
of New Orleans and Louisiana. He 
considered it his duty to lend his aid 
for the betterment of his city and 
State. He is an ardent advocate of 
etiucation and has helped in every pos- 
sible way both the parochial and pub- 
lic schools, and he has also assisted 
many poor girls and boys who were 
not able to purchase books, as well as 
laiment, in connection with their at- 
tendance upon the schools. 



— Page Tiro Hundred (ind Nineteen 




MR. PHILIP WERLEIN. 

A man of sterling qualities and pre- 
eminent business and executive ability 
is Philip Werlein. It is no exaggera- 
tion to say that among the leading 
men of affairs in Louisiana not one is 
better known and has more friends 
than Mr. Werlein throughout the coun- 
try. His connection with one of the 
largest music houses in the United 
States, as well as his prominence in 
commercial and social organizations, 
has brought him in contact with the 
biggest men in the land. It was dur- 
ing his administration as President of 
the New Orleans Progressive Union 
that Louisiana and the Crescent City 
entertained President Taft, to the 
credit of the entire nation. Mr. Wer- 
lein gave a great deal of his valuable 
time to perfecting arrangements for 
that big event that advertised Louis- 
iana and New Orleans all over the 
country. 

Mr. Werlein's splendid administra- 
tion of the affairs of the Progressive 
Union brought the organization up to 
a high state of efficiency, and during 
his term the membership increased 



greatly, and it was instrumental in 
interesting capital in both Louisiana 
and New Orleans. Mr. Werlein is re- 
garded as one of the best financiers 
in the South. He is a practical booster 
and never wearies in doing everything 
within his power for the welfare of 
his State and city. His ideas are al- 
ways of the progressive nature and 
the adoption of the most modern and 
approved methods. He is a firm ad- 
vocate of truthful advertising, and 
makes it a rule never to practice de- 
ception and to give the public value 
received for their money, and as a 
result his large music establishment 
has prospered for over seventy years. 
Although declining to become a 
candidate for office of a public or po- 
litical nature, carrying with it remu- 
neration, Mr. Werlein did consent to 
become a member of the State Cen- 
tral Democratic Committee, and re- 
ceived one of the largest votes cast 
in the recent primary. The position 
is entirely honorary and carries with 
it no pay or emoluments. On ac- 
count of his excellent qualifications 
Mr. Werlein was chosen as Vice Presi- 
dent of the executive committee. He 
has several times refused to allow the 
use of his name for political office, 
preferring to perform his civic and po- 
litical duties in the ranks of commer- 
cial men and financiers. He served 
for several years as the head of the 
Progressive Union without any com- 
pensation, while he gave liberally 
from his own purse to the commercial, 
industrial and agricultural advance- 
ment of New Orleans and Louisiana. 
Mr. Werlein is identified with a num- 
ber of social societies for the promo- 
tion of the friendly spirit and the en- 
tertainment of prominent visitors. He 
is a firm believer in the future of 
Louisiana and the port of New Or- 
leans, and he never fails when attend- 
ing large conventions in the North 
and East and on business trips to 
boost his city and State. He is an ex- 
emplary citizen and holds the esteem 
of his friends because he merits it. 



— Page Two Hundred and Twenty 




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PLAYER, UPRIGHT AND GRAND 



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VICTROLA 

RECORDS and MACHINES 



"Everything Musical" 

Founded 1842 
Catalogues Upon Request 



PHILIP WERLEIN, Ltd. 

605 CANAL ST. 
New Orleans 



-Page Two Hundred and Twenty-one 



WHEN IN NEW ORLEANS STOP AT THE 



COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL 



Centrally Located. Only Half Block Off Canal Street. 

In the Heart of the Retail District. Convenient 

to All Theatres. Modern in Every Respect. 




The Cj.iven.e.ic3 a.id S^rvlca Accorded tii3 Guests in 

this Hotel Cannot Ba Excelled, No Matter 

What Rates You Pay. 



The Bourbon Cafe 

Where the Elite of New Orleans 
dine is on the Bourbon Street 
side of the Hotel. 



Royal Cafe 

High Class Entertainment every 
evening on the Royal Street side 
of the Hotel. 



European Plan $1.00 Per Day and Up 

A. D. STEWART, Manager 



— Page Ttvo Hundred and Twenty-two 



The Whitney -Central Banks 

OF NEW ORLEANS ^^^^ 



Capital and Surplus 



$4,500,000 




The Whitney-Central National Bank of New Orleans 



OFFICERS: 
JOHN E. BOUDEN, Jr., President 



FRANK B. WILLIAMS - Vice-Pres. 

HARRY T. HOWARD - Vice-Pres. 

J. D. O'KEEFE ... - Vice-Pres. 

CHAS. T. BAISLEY - - Vice-Pres. 

MAURITZ PYK - - - Vice-Pres. 



JNO. B. FERGUSON - - Cashier 
E. H. KEEP - - Assistant Cashier 
N. E. BERTEL - Assistant Cashier 
N. M. WHITNEY . Assistant Cashier 
S. J. McMAIN . Assistant Cashier 



The Whitney-Central Trust and Savings Bank 

NEW ORLEANS, LA. 

OFFICERS: 

JOHN E. BOUDEN, Jr , President 

HARRY T. HOWARD . Vice.Pres. ALBERT BLOOM - - Vice.Pres. 

FRANK B. WILLIAMS . Vice.Pres. H. L. FRANTZ - - - Vice-Pres. 

C. H. ELLIS Vice-Pres. W. W. BOUDEN - - - Cashier 

JNO. L. COUTURIER, Assistant Cashier and Trust Officer. 



-Paf/e Two Hundred and Twenty-three 



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"Finest All the Year Hotel in the South" 




The New Orleans Headquarters for Louisiana's 
Prominent People. 



In the Center of Business and Amusement 

Districts. 



ALFRED S. AMER & CO., Ltd., Proprietors. 



-Pnric Tiro HnnrJred and Twenty-four 



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Leaves NEW ORLEANS - 8;00p.in. 
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Arrives GALVESTON - - 9:25 a.m. 
Arrives GRAND CANYON - 6:50 a.m. 
Arrives LOS ANGELES - - 7:50 p. m. 
Arrives SAN FRANCISCO - 8:00 a. m. 



-AND- 



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Leaves NEW ORLEANS 8:20 a. m. 

Arrives BEAUMONT - - 6:05 p. m. 

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